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单词 to keep one's block
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to keep one's block
c. Chiefly Australian and New Zealand. to keep one's block: to refrain from losing one's temper or self-control; to remain calm. Cf. to keep one's head at head n.1 Phrases 4g(b). Now rare.
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1902 Sydney Sportsman 10 Dec. 8/3 Had Walcott kept his block he must have ended it there and then.
1918 Chrons. N.Z.E.F. 21 June 22/1 If you can keep your block, while those about you are losing theirs.
1949 Northern Star (Lismore, New S. Wales) 29 Jan. 6/3 The doctor angrily compared the Mayor to a very defunct member of the canine tribe. ‘W.T.’, however, kept his block and laughed.
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