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keep one's wits about one

Idioms  

  1. see have one's wits about one.

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But so it always is when one does not keep one's wits about one.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert

How difficult it is to keep one's wits about one after what has happened.'

From Celibates by Moore, George (George Augustus)

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