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Calm and composed even in difficult or frustrating situations; self-possessed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, not-comparable
Qualifier: simile
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
First use appears c. 1722 in a translation of Robinson Crusoe. See cite below.
Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Finnish:
rauhallinen kuin viilipytty
— calm and composed; self-possessed
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German:
kalt wie Hundeschnauze
— calm and composed; self-possessed
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Hungarian:
rendíthetetlenül nyugodt
— calm and composed; self-possessed
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Hungarian:
rendíthetetlen nyugalmú
— calm and composed; self-possessed
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Hungarian:
csigavérű
— calm and composed; self-possessed
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Portuguese:
de boa na lagoa
— calm and composed; self-possessed
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Russian:
споко́йный, как уда́в
(spokójnyj, kak udáv)
— calm and composed; self-possessed
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Spanish:
estar más fresco que una lechuga
— calm and composed; self-possessed
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Spanish:
calmatol
— calm and composed; self-possessed
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Swedish:
lugn som en filbunke
— calm and composed; self-possessed
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Swedish:
kolugn
— calm and composed; self-possessed
