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keep it under one's hat 

Keep something a secret.

There are four origins of this idiom (I GUARANTEE IT):

- English archers protected their bows by putting the strings on their heads under their helmets;
- “keep it under our hat” was mentioned in 1982 in periodical "Gleanings in Bee Culture";
- President Abraham Lincoln's stove pipe hat, where he kept important papers;
- the ceremonial swordbearer of the Lord Mayor of London (can be dated to 1420), who keeps the key to the Lord Mayor’s seal of office in a special pocket in his hat.
-keep it under one's hat-

Joey: All right, what else?
Chandler: Well uh, there was acting classes, stage combat classes, tap classes…

Joey: Which we're still keeping under our hats!

keep it stepin 

to move on from something; to mind your own business; being nonchalant about a situation
she kept looking at me so I told her to keep it stepin

keep it a hunnit(hundred)

to be just straight foward honest with some one
Yo what happened last night, man iimma keep it a hunnit(hundred) with you i slept with your girl.

keep it a band

Keeping it 100 with somebody
Mannn to keep it a band I really don't like ole girl she just a side
keep it a band by Amoneyyyyy March 11, 2016

keep it Disney 

making sure to use clean language, even when tempted to sound like a truck driver
"Holy s$%#! Was that an unf$%&*#-believable roller coaster??" said my friend. "Whoa, whoa- let's keep it Disney, my man, there are children around!" I responded.
keep it Disney by blankford February 22, 2011

keep it grimey 

Slang phrase meaning that someone tells the truth even it if means revealing some gruesome, vulgar, obscene or otherwise damaging information. Not to be confused with keepin it gangsta
Thug: Ayo, what ever happened to Raheed? wasn't he supposed to step on this brick and take it to poppi on 116th?
HeadG: Look blood between me and you, Raheed owed me money, and nobody liked his punk ass anyway so me and Niko popped him and dumped his body in the river ya dig?
Thug: Word, way to keep it grimey my nigga!

Chump: Hey baby, why ain't you returning my calls?
Girl: Look nigga you're broke, stupid and your style's whack plus your dick ain't circumsized, so stop callin me..
Onlooker: Hahaha oh shit, that chick's keepin it grimey!
Chump: Hey! Get back here HO!

Playa: Yo this might not be the best time to tell you this, but I'm fuckin Denise..
Chump: WHAT! I just bought her wedding ring, I'm gonna kill both of you!
Playa: Whoa whoa, don't be mad at me, I'm just keepin it grimey youngn..
keep it grimey by netstryke January 7, 2006