upstairs
54
7.5
- adverb
- /ʌpˈstɛrz/
- Informal
:
no estar bien de la cabeza
- After studying all night, she felt that her thoughts were not very organized upstairs.
Examples
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You know, what starts upstairs in my head, ends downstairs in my life.
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OK healthy gut below healthy body upstairs, including our brains.
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It's so weird what goes on upstairs when you hit puberty.
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So now I tell you what's upstairs, and you're not going to believe it.
Fiction book (1997) -
So it was a two-part equation, changes downstairs in the body and then changes upstairs within the brain.
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You know, something went wrong upstairs can happen if you're overtired.
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I just don't reckon he's got too much upstairs.
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When he felt overwhelmed, he realized there was too much going on upstairs to focus clearly.
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Sometimes, taking a break helps clear things up upstairs when you're feeling confused.
Compounds
- Informal
1
8.6
A casual name for God used when people mean someone who watches over them
Surface Forms
Etymology
Upstairs (informal) is a helpful image: think of your head as the up + stairs of your body, so if someone is not right upstairs, it means something is wrong 'in the mind'.