The upper crust

Definition

upper /'ʌpǝ(r) / adj ၁။ အေပၚ။ the upper lip/ arm/ jaw ❍ one of the upper rooms/ floors/ windows. ၂။ ကုန္းတြင္းပိုင္း (သို႔) ေျမာက္ပိုင္း (သို႔) အညာ။ Upper Egypt ❍ the upper (reaches of the) Thames. ၃။ အထက္။ the upper levels of society ❍ salaries/ people in the upper income bracket. Compare LOW 1 ၆ n ၁။ (႐ႉး၊ ဘြတ္၊ ေျခနင္းတို႔၏) ေျခခံုအထက္ပိုင္း။ leather uppers. ၂။ ( sl ) စိတ္ႂကြေဆး။ Compare DOWNER ၁ ❏ gain, get, etc the upper hand [ IDM ] အသာစီးရသည္။ အေပၚစီးရသည္။ The progressive wing of the party has now clearly gained the upper hand. ❏ on one's uppers [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) ခြၽတ္ၿခံဳက်သည္။ ❏ upper case n [U] (ေရာမအကၡရာ ပံုႏိွပ္ရာတြင္) စာလံုးႀကီး။ an upper-case "A". Compare LOWER CASE ❏ the upper class n [CGp] အထက္တန္းလႊာ။ belong to the upper class (es) ❍ The upper class has/ have always had influence. ❍ an upper-class accent/ background. ❏ the upper crust n [Gp] ( infml or joc ) လူ႕မလိုင္။ belong to the upper crust. ❏ upper-cut n (in boxing) (လက္ေဝွ႔) ပင့္လက္သီး။ ❏ the Upper House n [sing] (ၿဗိတိသွ် House of Lords, အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စုလႊတ္ေတာ္ Senate တို႔ ကဲ့သို႔) အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္။

Examples

1. He had a scar on his upper lip.
2. You’ll be able to see more if you sit on the upper deck of the bus.
3. There is already some snow on the upper slopes.
4. He’s got to build up his upper-body strength.
5. [upper limit] : There’s no upper limit on the number of competitors in the race.
6. The upper ranks of the army
7. [the upper echelons (of something)] : The upper echelons of the Conservative Party
8. New York’s Upper East Side
9. The upper reaches (=parts) of the Zambezi