play it cool
to behave in a calm, controlled way, often intentionally appearing not to be interested in the thing that you very much want to get:
Play it cool - don't let them know how much you need the money.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Controlling emotions
- bottle
- bottle sth up
- brave
- breaking point
- choke
- choke sth back
- collected
- compose
- cork
- emotional blackmail idiom
- frustrated
- give voice to sth idiom
- gulp sth back
- harden
- repress
- repressed
- self-possession
- steadily
- swallow
- temper
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