"Celina had to try very hard to keep a stiff upper lip when her parents told her they were moving to another country".
One who has a stiff upper lip displays fortitude in the face of adversity, or exercises self-restraint in the expression of emotion. The phrase is most commonly heard as part of the idiom keep a stiff upper lip, and has traditionally been used to describe a virtue of (particularly upper middle and upper class) British people, who are sometimes perceived by other cultures as being reserved.
So in other words, to be cool and unmoved by unsettling events, to act in a way that doesn’t show any emotions!
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