| 单词 | cool as a cucumber |
| 释义 | > as lemmascool (†cold) as a cucumber b. cool (†cold) as a cucumber (humorous): perfectly ‘cool’ or self-possessed; showing no excitement or disturbance of feeling. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > self-possession or self-control > [adjective] coolc1430 coldc1500 within oneself (itself, etc.)1518 cool-headed1684 present to oneself1692 possesseda1698 self-restrained1700 self-collecteda1711 cool (cold) as a cucumbera1732 self-possessing1732 self-regulating1755 cool-brained1765 self-possessed1766 self-restraining1777 self-disciplined?1791 self-controlling1796 self-repressed1814 self-controlled1822 self-contained1838 self-repressing1849 unimpulsive1856 posé1858 downbeat1953 cucumber-cool1955 supercool1965 a1732 J. Gay New Song Similes in Poems iii I..cool as a cucumber could see The rest of womankind. 1760 T. Gray Let. 29 June in Corr. (1971) II. 685 It was dry as a stick, hard as a stone, and cold as a cucumber. 1838 T. De Quincey Brief Appraisal Greek Lit. in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 773/2 Thucydides..is as cool as a cucumber upon every act of atrocity. 1851 D. Jerrold (title) Cool as a Cucumber. < as lemmas |
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