keep your cool
Maintain your composure
To keep your cool is to stay calm under pressure, resisting the urge to panic or lose your temper: She kept her cool even when the client started yelling.
The opposite is to lose your cool.
Cool here means composure—the collected state that falls apart when someone gets heated.
- calmFree from agitation
- composureEmotional self-control
- collectedCalm and self-possessed
- unruffledEmotionally undisturbed, placid
- steadyFixed, not fluctuating
deep breaths · patience · hold it together · breathe · restraint · level-headed · poker face · chill · zen · stoic · unfazed · temper · poise · self-control · measured · serene · grace · grace under pressure
- calming phrasesstay calm, calm down, relax, take it easy, easy does it
- anger expressionssee red, seeing red, blow a fuse, blow a gasket, hit the roof
- patience phraseswait, hold on, just a minute, one moment, one second
keep your coollose your temper
Abruptly give into anger
blow up · fly off the handle · lose your cool · explode · freak out
keep your coollash out
Attack abruptly in anger
fly into a rage · make a scene · throw a tantrum · rant and rave · see red
keep, keeps, keeper, keepers, keeping, your, yours, yourself, yourselves