What does keep one's nerve mean?

keep one's nerve

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.97 in modern English

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"There in crisp fifty-pound notes was the answer to so many of his and his father’s problems. When he thought no one was looking, Frank moved his left foot slowly forward to cover it. If he kept his nerve, he could craftily slide it out of the room."

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