phlegmnoun [ U ]
uk/flem/us/flem/phlegm noun [ U ] (SUBSTANCE)
a thick substance in your nose and throat that is produced when you have a cold
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Animal physiology: bodily fluids & their production
- beaded
- bile
- bogy
- bucket
- discharge
- dribble
- expectorate
- jism
- lacteal
- lymphatic
- mucus
- perspire
- pus
- snot
- spat
- sperm
- spermatozoon
- spit
- spunk
- sweat buckets idiom
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phlegm noun [ U ] (CALMNESS)
formal the ability to stay calm and not get emotional or excited about things even in a difficult or dangerous situation
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Calm and relaxed
- (as) cool as a cucumber idiom
- at (your) leisure idiom
- be at peace with the world idiom
- carefree
- careless
- comfort
- comfortably
- easy come, easy go idiom
- easy-going
- equilibrium
- free-flowing
- genteel
- harmonious
- lamb
- peaceful
- poised
- quiescent
- relaxed
- rested
- sangfroid
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