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The idiom 'Keep your shirt on is used to tell someone to calm down. The phrase was coined in the 19th century, when men wore shirts that were highly starched and to engage in a fight they had to remove their shirts. Therefore, when you told someone to keep their shirt on, you were in fact saying lets not fight.

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