upper story

upper story
top story & upper story
Sl. the brain; one's mind and intellect. •

A little weak in the upper story, but other than that, a great guy.

He has nothing for a top story.

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{n.} 1. A floor or level of a building above the first floor. * /The apartment house where Gene lives is five stories high and he lives in one of the upper stories./ 2. {slang} A person's head or brain. * /Lulu has nobody home in the upper story./ * /Bill's sister says he is weak in the upper story./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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  • upper story — {n.} 1. A floor or level of a building above the first floor. * /The apartment house where Gene lives is five stories high and he lives in one of the upper stories./ 2. {slang} A person s head or brain. * /Lulu has nobody home in the upper… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • upper story — noun 1. : a story (as of a house) that is above the ground floor 2. slang : brain a little off in the upper story Erle Stanley Gardner * * * upper storey or (esp in N American) upper story noun …   Useful english dictionary

  • upper\ story — noun 1. A floor or level of a building above the first floor. The apartment house where Gene lives is five stories high and he lives in one of the upper stories. 2. slang A person s head or brain. Lulu has nobody home in the upper story. Bill s… …   Словарь американских идиом

  • upper story — Any story of a building above the ground floor. Rose v King, 49 Ohio St 213, 30 NE 267 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • upper story — Go to top story …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • upper storey — or (esp in N American) upper story noun 1. Any storey above the first floor 2. The brain (slang) • • • Main Entry: ↑up * * * upper story or upper storey, Humorous. the head as the seat of the mind or intel …   Useful english dictionary

  • story — I n. tale 1) to narrate, tell a story 2) to carry, circulate, print, run a story (all the newspapers carried the story about the fire) 3) to edit; rewrite; write a story 4) to concoct, fabricate, invent, make up a story 5) to change, revise;… …   Combinatory dictionary

  • story — A habitable space between two floors of a building; a set of rooms on the same floor or level. Biber v O Brien, 138 Cal App 353, 32 P2d 425. All the rooms on one level of a building; a horizontal section of a building. 32 Am J1st L & T § 1662. A… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • story — See: OLD STORY, SOB STORY, UPPER STORY …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • story — See: OLD STORY, SOB STORY, UPPER STORY …   Dictionary of American idioms

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