"keep one's shirt on" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-keep one's shirt on.wav [US] Forms: keeps one's shirt on [present, singular, third-person], keeping one's shirt on [participle, present], kept one's shirt on [participle, past], kept one's shirt on [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|<,,kept>}} keep one's shirt on (third-person singular simple present keeps one's shirt on, present participle keeping one's shirt on, simple past and past participle kept one's shirt on)
  1. (informal) (Usually in the imperative) Stop being impatient; calm down. Tags: informal Translations (calm down): tag det nu roligt (Danish)

Inflected forms

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