upper story

[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 story./

* /Bill's sister says he is weak in the upper story./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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