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If you get angry easily, you have a temper. But when you get angry, you've lost your temper?

Maybe the temper is like a muzzle. When they say you have a temper, they're saying it's the only reason you're not going ballistic at all times.

"a person's state of mind seen in terms of their being angry or calm."
You always have a temper. You're example are just colloquialisms. When saying "you have a temper", the word bad is implied because otherwise why would you mention someone's temper? It's the same with the word diet, you always have some form of diet. Saying that you're going on a diet just implies it's some kind of a restrictive diet.

It's the same thing with the word "behave". Like, we're always behaving some sort of way, whether that's good behavior or bad behavior or strange behavior or awkward behavior or erratic behavior or whatever. But somehow saying just "behave" became synonymous with "behave well".

Well, you just need to temper your expectations.

ReturnOfDevsman posted...

If you get angry easily, you have a temper. But when you get angry, you've lost your temper?

Maybe the temper is like a muzzle. When they say you have a temper, they're saying it's the only reason you're not going ballistic at all times.

temper
/tempr/

noun

1. 1.
2. a person's state of mind seen in terms of their being angry or calm.
3. "he rushed out in a very bad temper"

Temper down" means to reduce the intensity or strength of something. For example, you can temper down your anger by taking deep breaths or going for a walk.

1. the degree of hardness and elasticity in steel or other metal.
2. "the blade rapidly heats up and the metal loses its temper"

verb

1. 1.
2. improve the hardness and elasticity of (steel or other metal) by reheating and then cooling it.
3. "the way a smith would temper a sword"
4. 2.
5. act as a neutralizing or counterbalancing force to (something).
6. "their idealism is tempered with realism"

someone been watching severance? lol

krazychao5 posted...

someone been watching severance? lol

Never heard of it.

There are too many TV shows, man. I can't say anything without someone accusing me of watching one of them.

iceman9820 posted...

You are example are just colloquialisms.

???

If you get angry easily, I would usually hear it described as having a "short" temper, which I assume to mean that the temper, whatever it is, is essentially a RL sanity meter of sorts. The shorter the temper, the less you have to work with before get angy.