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keep one's shirt on
vs
pour oil on troubled waters
keep one's shirt on
verb
To be more patient; to calm down.
pour oil on troubled waters
verb
To calm, appease or quieten a person or situation.
How often have the words
keep one's shirt on
and
pour oil on troubled waters
occurred in a corpus of books?
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Google Ngram Viewer
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