Keep something in proportion verb phrase
To respond in a sensible manner and not overestimate or exaggerate the importance, negativity, or significance of a situation
Since the advent of social media, people are more unlikely to keep simple problems in proportion.
No matter what happens, he always keeps things in proportion.
If I were him in that situation, I would try to keep things in proportion.
The verb "keep" must be conjugated accoridng to its tense.
This phrase is formed based on one meaning of he word "proportion": the correct relationship in size, degree, importance, etc. between one thing and another or between the parts of a whole