"keep one's pants on" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-keep one's pants on.ogg [Australia] Forms: keeps one's pants on [present, singular, third-person], keeping one's pants on [participle, present], kept one's pants on [participle, past], kept one's pants on [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|keep<,,kept> one's pants on}} keep one's pants on (third-person singular simple present keeps one's pants on, present participle keeping one's pants on, simple past and past participle kept one's pants on)
  1. (idiomatic, slang, chiefly imperative) To stay calm. Tags: idiomatic, imperative, slang Synonyms: keep one's hair on, keep one's knickers on Related terms: keep it in one's pants
    Sense id: en-keep_one's_pants_on-en-verb-KKnXrWdc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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