Definition of Upstairs

Upstairs

Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.

Being above stairs; as, an upstairs room.

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Above, An, As, Being, In, Or, Room, Story, The, Toward, Up, Upper, Upstairs

Upstairs Quotations

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
Robert Frost

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
Tennessee Williams

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
James M. Barrie

Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.
Wellington Mara

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
M. C. Escher

My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.
Vanessa Carlton

C'mon. He'd be embarrassing upstairs at the White House. So I think she'd have a hard time. I think a woman president would have to be very conservative to get elected.
Chris Matthews

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.
Andy Summers

I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.'
Lee Child

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.
Ross MacDonald

I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch.
Graham Kennedy

The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.
John Jakes

I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs.
Franka Potente

I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
Wayne Newton

I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, there was a terrible wind force hitting my body, and then I blanked out.
Larry Miller

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
J. M. Barrie

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Upstairs Translations

upstairs in Afrikaans is bo
upstairs in Danish is oven
upstairs in Dutch is boven
upstairs in French is dessus, sur
upstairs in Portuguese is acima
upstairs in Spanish is arriba

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