keep one's knickers on
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keep one's knickers on (third-person singular simple present keeps one's knickers on, present participle keeping one's knickers on, simple past and past participle kept one's knickers on)
- (idiomatic, slang, chiefly imperative) To stay calm; to not get flustered or angry.
- Keep your knickers on, mate. It was only a joke.