| 单词 | cool customer |
| 释义 | > as lemmascool customer cool customer n. a person who is calm and composed, esp. where alarm, dismay, or diffidence would be expected (cf. senses A. 2a, A. 2d); cf. customer n. 6. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > self-possession or self-control > [noun] > person having possessor1713 cool customer1823 self-regulator1861 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. xiii. 293 Yonder Tyrrel looks like a tevilish cool customer—..I can promise you he is mettle to the back bone. 1869 Ballou's Monthly Mag. July 98/1 (heading) A cool customer... A lathy fellow entered his place and ordered a double stew of oysters... ‘Seventy-five cents.’.. ‘I haint got any money.’ The last we ever saw of him he was walking very leisurely down the street. 1941 A. Christie Evil under Sun v. 96 Cool customer. Not giving anything away, is he? 1997 N. DeMille Plum Island xxviii. 379 He must have known that I knew both his secrets, yet he was not ruffled... A very cool customer, indeed. < as lemmas |
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