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keep your shirt on

An admonition to be more patient or to calm down.
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Submitted on September 01, 2009

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Keep Your Shirt OnTo remain patient and cool, not to get angry and enraged and to control one’s tempered
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keep your feet on the groundLaugh Out of the Other Side of Your Mou…Lay Your Cards on the Tablekeep your hair onkiss your money goodbyelose one's shirtKeep Your Fingers Crossedlay your cards on the tableKnock Your Socks Offknock the wind out of your sailskeep your heads down!Keep Your Nose to the GrindstoneLet Your Hair Downlook down one's shirt

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