keep your cool
/ˌkiːp jə ˈkuːl/INFORMAL · B2
Meaning
to stay calm in a difficult moment
Examples
- 1The receptionist kept her cool while three phones rang at once.
- 2You need to keep your cool when the interviewer asks something unexpected.
- 3Ben kept his cool and calmly explained the delay to the waiting passengers.
- 4I try to keep my cool, but that ringtone tests me every morning.
- 5How do teachers keep their cool with thirty children in a room?
Grammar
Only the verb changes (keeps, kept, keeping), and the possessive matches the subject. Here cool is a noun, not an adjective.
Similar in meaning
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