keep cool

Idioms  

1. Also, keep a cool head; stay cool; be cool; (take it cool). Remain calm and under control, as in Keep cool, they'll soon show up, or Be cool, the surprise is not spoiled, or You have to keep a cool head in these volatile situations, or Sit tight, take it cool, they won't bother you again. All these terms employ cool in the sense of “not heated by strong emotion,” a usage dating from the late 1300s or even earlier. The first three expressions are colloquial and date from the second half of the 1800s; both of the last two are slang, and the very last (take it cool) is the oldest, first recorded in 1841. Also see keep one's cool; play it cool.

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Example Sentences

Keep cool and get yourself home as soon as it’s safe to travel.

From Washington Post • May 13, 2020

Surely no one can have forgotten the slogan that carried the day, "Keep cool with Coolidge."

From Time Magazine Archive

"Keep cool and watch yourselves," he told them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Said Dorothy: "Keep cool, Mr. Gabriel, keep cool."

From Time Magazine Archive

Dinner-giving; Keep cool; Peter Funk; Titles of songs; John Bull as a beat-ee, 854.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various