"keep a cool head" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-keep a cool head.ogg [Australia] Forms: keeps a cool head [present, singular, third-person], keeping a cool head [participle, present], kept a cool head [participle, past], kept a cool head [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|keep<,,kept> a cool head}} keep a cool head (third-person singular simple present keeps a cool head, present participle keeping a cool head, simple past and past participle kept a cool head)
  1. (idiomatic) To keep one's cool; to stay calm. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-keep_a_cool_head-en-verb-c8tbJc14 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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