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Vertical virtue: the piano that never left home and the posture your mother still corrects.
means Standing straight up — whether that's a person's posture, an object's position, or someone's moral character.
from A straightforward Old English compound of 'up' and 'riht' (right), meaning literally 'straight up.' The physical sense came first — things standing erect rather than lying down — and the moral sense followed naturally, since standing tall and being honest both got coded as 'upright' while slouching and cheating did not. The piano got the name in the 1800s simply because it stood vertically, distinguishing it from its horizontal grand relative.
- piano type
- compact because the strings run vertically, not horizontally
- legal sense
- means honest, like you actually returned the cart
- etymology
- literally just up plus right, no tricks
- posture claim
- standing straight adds zero inches but all the confidence