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
Viktor	VIK-tawr (German), VEEK-tahr (Russian)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, German, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Russian, Ukraini
LÉOne	-	French
Fulton	FUL-tən	English
Luka	-	Russian, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, Georgian, Old Church Slavic
Summer	SUM-ər	English
Bengt	BENKT	Swedish