keep one's head

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keep one's head (third-person singular simple present keeps one's head, present participle keeping one's head, simple past and past participle kept one's head)

  1. (idiomatic) To remain calm, reasonable, level-headed, especially in a situation likely to cause distress.
    • 1895, Rudyard Kipling, If—:
      If you can keep your head when all about you
      Are losing theirs and blaming it on you . . .
    • 1910, John Buchan, chapter 16, in Prester John:
      The ruffian kept his head, and though the dog's teeth were in his shoulder, he managed to get his right hand free.
    • 2008 March 7, “Mother Throws 7 Kids Out Window To Save Them From Fire”, in CityNews, Canada, retrieved 12 Dec. 2009:
      Officials are calling the woman a hero for keeping her head and finding the only way out amid the panic of the smoke and flames.

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