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cool, calm, and collected
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Idioms and Phrases
Calm and composed, self-possessed. For example, No matter what the board decides, you have to appear cool, calm, and collected in front of the stockholders . This alliterative synonym for cool as a cucumber dates from the late 1800s.Discover More
Example Sentences
But why lament for this—if, may be, the autumn with its calm cool chastened light be longer thine?
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Sometimes they sleep above the calm cool reaches of a rush-grown mere.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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