keep your head

Meaning

1. Editorial50% of films

   to avoid being beheaded; to keep one's head attached to one's body

2. Oxford38% of films

   to remain calm in a difficult situation

   "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs...

In the movies · 29

• "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs...Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation2015
• A man who'll keep his head, not get rattled under fire ...Unforgiven1992
• All I can tell you is you keep your head on straight and you do your job.Breach2007
• Keep your head downAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania2023
• Keep your head down.Madame Web2024
• Keep your head movingSouthpaw2015
• Keep your head down.Gone Girl2014
• Keep your head up out there today.Felon2008

Learn it in full scenes

• Breach2007
  • Eric Is Assigned to Watch Hanssen
  • Kate Recruits Eric to Spy on Hanssen
  • Hanssen Interrogates His New Assistant

From the same entry

• a head
• bang your heads together
• be banging, your head against a brick wall
• be head and shoulders above
• bite head off
• bring to a head
• bury your head in the sand
• can't make head nor tail of
• do head in
• do standing on your head
• from head to foot
• get your head down

More idioms

• only just
• to date
• i must say
• keep going
• anything can happen
• by choice
• on call
• on second thoughts
• be nothing to
• at ease
• a step ahead
• a straight face