keep temper

keep one's temper

and hold one's temper

to hold back an expression of anger. (The opposite of lose one's temper.) She should have learned to keep her temper when she was a child. Sally got thrown off the team because she couldn't hold her temper.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
&Thorn;ÓRa	-	Ancient Scandinavian, Icelandic
Leimomi	-	Hawaiian
Mercy	['mə:si]
Shqipe	-	Albanian
Elena	E-le-nah (Italian), e-LE-nah (Spanish), ye-LYE-nah (Russian), ee-LYE-nah (Russian)	Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Slovak, Lithuanian, Russian, German, Medieval Sla
Clotilde	klo-TEELD (French)	French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish