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keep your shirt on

VERB
hold your horses
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"Just keep your shirt on, and tell me where you got that amortization amendment," said Senator Norris, shaking his insurgent finger.

From Time Magazine Archive

"In such a situation, it's advisable to keep your shirt on."

From Time Magazine Archive

Your paternal speaker suggests that you climb every other mountain and keep your shirt on.

From Time Magazine Archive

At this point Author Scherman, who says you must keep your shirt on if you want to understand economics, throws his hat on the ground and stamps on it.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Now keep your shirt on, stranger," the old man said, with a twitching of his long white mustache, inviting him in for a bite to eat while he hunted up his land receipts.

From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Voorhies, Stephen J.




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