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cool as a cucumber

adj

Etymology

First use appears c. 1722 in a translation of Robinson Crusoe. See cite below.

Definitions

  1. Calm and composed even in difficult or frustrating situations

    Calm and composed even in difficult or frustrating situations; self-possessed.

    • Even during the elections, Josh was as cool as a cucumber.
    • Still he had all his wits about him, and was as cool as a cucumber.
    • 1731, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Miscellanies: The Last Volume Pert as a Pear-Monger I'd be, If Molly were but kind; Cool as a Cucumber could see The rest of Womankind

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