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cool, calm, and collected

Idioms

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.

Example Sentences

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Whatever the circumstance — cold, snow, rain, wind, noise — Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford is cool, calm and collected.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026

Appearing cool, calm and collected, McCarthy cast the funding plan as just a proposal and left time for rank-and-file members to debate, according to Republicans familiar with the meeting.

From Washington Times • Sep. 19, 2023

Sian said, despite their predicament, the guests were "very cool calm and collected".

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2023

"It’s my job to stay cool, calm and collected in moments like those."

From Fox News • Jan. 25, 2022

I thought about mentioning this to Regan, but she was the picture of cool, calm, and collected, and I decided against it.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023