cool as a cucumber
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Before 1726
Pronunciation
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Adjective
[edit]cool as a cucumber (not comparable)
- (simile) Calm and composed even in difficult or frustrating situations; self-possessed.
- Even during the elections, Josh 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
- Pert as a Pear-Monger I'd be,
- 2011 January 8, Chris Bevan, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds”, in BBC[1]:
- Seconds later, Dowd was pointing to the spot again - this time without changing his mind - after Walcott was tugged back by Parker. Fabregas, cool as a cucumber, fired his penalty straight down the middle of the goal.
- 2016 May 17, Don Markus, “For Kent Desormeaux, Preakness is a welcome Maryland homecoming”, in The Washington Post[2]:
- “I’d be shaking in my shoes to ride in the Preakness,” said Desormeaux, who finished dead last in his first Preakness in 1988. “Now, not only have I won it twice [in 1998 on Real Quiet and in 2008 on Big Brown], I’ve lived life. I’ll be as cool as a cucumber in the saddle” with Exaggerator on Saturday.
Synonyms
[edit]- calm, calm as a cucumber, collected, composed, cool, in control, level-headed, rational, self-possessed
Translations
[edit]calm and composed; self-possessed
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