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Don't have a cow, man.

— Bart · The Simpsons

Painterly black and white cow beside muddy boots on a small grassy patch against yellow-green.
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The speaker tells someone to calm down using a playful, slangy idiom. The cow makes the advice cheeky rather than stern, softening the rebuke with irreverent humour while still asking the other person not to overreact to what has happened.

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