hold one's nerve

verb

Definitions

  1. To stay calm facing nervousness.

    • She held her nerve after failing to serve out the match at the first attempt, seeing three match points slip by in a nervous service game at 6-4 5-4 and recovering from losing the tie-break to dominate the decider.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hold one's nerve. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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