keep one's temper

Idioms  

1. see hold one's temper.

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Example Sentences

Well, I know one thing," said Eurie, "it requires twice the grace that I supposed it did to get through with kitchen duties and exasperations and keep one's temper.

From The Chautauqua Girls At Home by Pansy

It will not do to think of them; that is the only way to keep one's temper.

From Elinor Wyllys, Volume 2 by Cooper, Susan Fenimore

It is very difficult to keep one's temper in dealing with M. Arnold when he touches on religious matters.

From Matthew Arnold by Russell, George William Erskine

It wasn't easy to keep one's temper with this sort of brute; but there was Nessa to be thought of.

From The Man Without a Memory by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)

But we have the original sense of "good temper" in the expression to "keep one's temper."

From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)