keep your shirt on

Meaning

1. Oxford80% of films

   used to tell sb not to get angry

   Well, just keep your shirt on till I do.

2. Editorial20% of films

   Used to tell someone to wait and stop being impatient or in a hurry.

In the movies · 6

• All right, keep your shirt on. Let me read.The Princess Bride1987
• Hello. No. Tell the senator to keep his shirt on.You Can't Take It with You1938
• - So? -Keep your shirt on.Once Upon a Time in America1984
• Keep your shirt on. I'm coming.A History of Violence2005
• Keep your shirt on, pal.Hotel Transylvania 4: Transformania2022
• Keep your shirt on. Maybe lose the suspenders.American Psycho2000
• Well, just keep your shirt on till I do.The Chase1966
• Keep your shirt on. You're insured.Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein1948

Learn it in full scenes

• The Princess Bride1987
  • Battle of Wits
  • How Westley Became Roberts
  • Miracle Max and the Mostly Dead
• You Can't Take It with You1938
  • Kirby Plans the Munitions Monopoly
  • Poppins Becomes a Lily of the Field
  • A Day in the Sycamore House

From the same entry

• put your shirt on
• the shirt off back

More slang

• i'm gone
• bring it on
• roger that
• cool it
• take a walk
• get it on
• dig in
• look what the cat dragged in
• honest to god
• skip it
• simmer down
• holy crap