单词 | cool as a cucumber |
释义 | cool as a cucumberSEE SYNONYMS FOR cool as a cucumber ON THESAURUS.COM Calm and composed, self-possessed, as in Despite the mishap Margaret was cool as a cucumber. This idiom may be based on the fact that in hot weather the inside of cucumbers remains cooler than the air. [c. 1600] For a synonym, see cool, calm, and collected. Words nearby cool as a cucumbercook with gas, cool, coolabah, coolamon, coolant, cool as a cucumber, cool bag, cool, calm, and collected, cooldown, cool drink, cooler The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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