"keep one's nerve" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "keeps one's nerve",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "keeping one's nerve",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept one's nerve",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept one's nerve",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "keep<,,kept> one's nerve"
      },
      "expansion": "keep one's nerve (third-person singular simple present keeps one's nerve, present participle keeping one's nerve, simple past and past participle kept one's nerve)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:",
          "text": "There in crisp fifty-pound notes was the answer to so many of his and his father’s problems. When he thought no one was looking, Frank moved his left foot slowly forward to cover it. If he kept his nerve, he could craftily slide it out of the room.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To keep one's cool"
      ],
      "id": "en-keep_one's_nerve-en-verb-XAjxZo7S",
      "links": [
        [
          "keep one's cool",
          "keep one's cool"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "keep one's nerve"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "keeps one's nerve",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "keeping one's nerve",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept one's nerve",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kept one's nerve",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "keep<,,kept> one's nerve"
      },
      "expansion": "keep one's nerve (third-person singular simple present keeps one's nerve, present participle keeping one's nerve, simple past and past participle kept one's nerve)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:",
          "text": "There in crisp fifty-pound notes was the answer to so many of his and his father’s problems. When he thought no one was looking, Frank moved his left foot slowly forward to cover it. If he kept his nerve, he could craftily slide it out of the room.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To keep one's cool"
      ],
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        [
          "keep one's cool",
          "keep one's cool"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "keep one's nerve"
}