keep one's cool

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)To remaincomposed,calm, andeven-tempered, especially in aprovocativesituation.1982,George Jackson, “Down Home Blues”, performed byZ. Z. Hill:All week long I've beenkeepin' my cool/ But tonight I'm gonna let my hair down / And get down with these down home blues1990October 11, Michael Martinez, “THE PLAYOFFS: By the Way, Stewart Leads A's Into Series”, inNew York Times, retrieved3 June 2009:In the heat of the afternoon, while Roger Clemens threw a temper tantrum and the Boston Red Sox became unraveled, Dave Stewartkept his cool.2009June 4, Kevin Purdy, Lukas Alpert, “‘The Next Thing I Knew the Ceiling Was on Me’”, inNew York Post, retrieved3 June 2009:Fighting back panic, she tried tokeep her cooland find a way out from under the rubble.2022August 30, Johnson Lai, “Taiwan leader tells troops to keep cool amid Chinese threats”, inThe Washington Post‎[1], archived fromthe originalon30 August 2022, World:Taiwan’s president told the self-ruled island’s military units Tuesday tokeep their coolin the face of daily warplane flights and warship maneuvers by rival China, saying that Taiwan will not allow Beijing to provoke a conflict.For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:keep one's cool.

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