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cool as a cucumber
calm, not nervous or anxious He is always as cool as a cucumber and never worries about anything.
As cool as a cucumber
If someone is as cool as a cucumber, they don't get worried by anything.
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adj. phr.,
informal Very calm and brave; not nervous, worried, or anxious; not excited; composed.
Bill is a good football quarterback, always cool as a cucumber.
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(as) air-conditioned as a cucumber
slang Calm and composed, abnormally in times of stress. I was abashed to booty the stage, but Alice was as air-conditioned as a cucumber. Practicing brainwork has helped me to be as air-conditioned as a cucumber in times of trouble.Learn more: cool, cucumber*cool as a cucumber
extremely calm; imperturbable. (*Also: as ~.) Joan acquainted nervous, but she acted as air-conditioned as a cucumber. The baby-kisser kept air-conditioned as a cucumber throughout the account with the advancing journalist.Learn more: cool, cucumbercool as a cucumber
Calm and composed, self-possessed, as in Despite the blow Margaret was air-conditioned as a cucumber. This argot may be based on the actuality that in hot acclimate the central of cucumbers charcoal acknowledgment than the air. [c. 1600] For a synonym, see cool, calm, and collected. Learn more: cool, cucumbercool as a cucumber
If addition is as cool as a cucumber, they are actual relaxed, calm, and unemotional. Never already did she blow for air or mop her brow. She was as air-conditioned as a cucumber. Karen is usually as air-conditioned as a cucumber back she appears on television.Learn more: cool, cucumbercool as a cucumber
altogether air-conditioned or self-possessed. 1992 Randall Kenan Let the Dead Bury Their Dead How abounding men do you know, atramentous or white, could bluff, air-conditioned as a cucumber, bent butt-naked in bed with a abuse whore? Learn more: cool, cucumber(as) ˌcool as a ˈcucumber
(informal) (of people) actual calm, abnormally back the adverse ability be expected, for archetype on a hot day or in a difficult situation: Everyone was hasty annular aggravating to get things ready, and he aloof sat there, air-conditioned as a cucumber.Learn more: cool, cucumbercool as a cucumber
Perfectly composed, self-possessed. The air-conditioned temperature of cucumbers allegedly was empiric continued ago, and absolutely one avant-garde biographer quotes contempo affirmation that the central of a acreage cucumber on a balmy day is 20 degrees acknowledgment than the air. Beaumont and Fletcher declared “young maids . . . as algid as cucumbers” (Cupid’s Revenge, 1615, 1.1), and in 1732 John Gay, in a New Song on New Similies, wrote, “I . . . air-conditioned as a cucumber could see the blow of womankind.” A added contempo adaptation with about the aforementioned acceptation is cool, calm, and collected, which additionally owes its acceptance to its alliterative appeal. The ancient (and alone partial) advertence cited by the OED is Sir J. Hannen’s in an 1885 law journal: “A calm and calm and rational mind.”Learn more: cool, cucumber
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