Emotions & feelings
keep it together
remain emotionally controlled
To keep it together means to stay calm and control your emotions in a difficult situation.
Hear it in real life
How did you manage during the emergency?
I was terrified, but I kept it together.
He tried to keep it together while he explained what had happened.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: She tried to keep her head together.
Say: She tried to keep it together.
Keep your head means stay calm, but the fixed phrase for controlling your emotions here is keep it together.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
keep it together; try to keep it together
Your turn: say it out loud
He tried to keep it together while he explained what had happened.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
keep it together
remain emotionally controlled
“He tried to keep it together while he explained what had happened.”
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