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If
If
a famous poem by Rudyard
Kipling
which starts with the words "If you can keep your head when all about you/Are losing theirs and blaming it on you...". It describes the qualities of character that some people think of as typically English, such as the ability to remain calm in difficult situations.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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