hold one's nerve

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hold one's nerve (third-person singular simple present holds one's nerve, present participle holding one's nerve, simple past and past participle held one's nerve)

1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To stay calm facing nervousness.
   • 2011 June 28, Piers Newbery, “Wimbledon 2011: Sabine Lisicki beats Marion Bartoli”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     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.