"keep one's hair on" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-keep one's hair on.ogg [Australia] Forms: keeps one's hair on [present, singular, third-person], keeping one's hair on [participle, present], kept one's hair on [participle, past], kept one's hair on [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|keep<,,kept> one's hair on}} keep one's hair on (third-person singular simple present keeps one's hair on, present participle keeping one's hair on, simple past and past participle kept one's hair on)
  1. (idiomatic, British, Ireland, colloquial) To stay calm; to be patient; to calm down. Tags: British, Ireland, colloquial, idiomatic Synonyms (to stay calm): keep one's knickers on, keep one's pants on, keep one's shirt on Translations (to stay calm): halt / halte mal die Luft an (German), mach mal halblang (German)

Inflected forms

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