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Cool it   /kul ɪt/   Listen
Cool it

verb
1.
Become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation.  Synonyms: calm, calm down, chill out, cool off, settle down, simmer down.  "It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again."






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"Cool it" Quotes from Famous Books



... from a boy, until, sitting at table with a dish of coffee before him, and she standing over him, bidding him haste that she might return to bed—sitting thus, I say, he took up the dish and began to blow into it to cool it, as children do. ...
— Humphrey Bold - A Story of the Times of Benbow • Herbert Strang

... ounces of pearl barley, (which costs less than two cents,) to remove any musty or bad flavor, put it over the fire in two quarts of cold water, and boil it until it is reduced to one quart; then strain it, cool it, and drink it whenever you are thirsty. A little sugar can be used without ...
— Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six • Juliet Corson

... To blow soup to cool it, or to pour tea or coffee into a saucer for the same purpose, are acts of awkwardness never seen in polite society. Wait until they are cool enough to ...
— Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society • Sarah Annie Frost

... attic, getting out some whole cloth," answered the girl; and as her father left the room, she leaned forward and rested her burning cheek on the veneer of the spinet for an instant as if to cool it. But the colour deepened rather than lessened, and a moment later she rose, with her lips pressed into a straight line, and her eyes shining very brightly. "I'll not marry the gawk. No! And if they ...
— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford

... Hormos, and the people are Saracens. The heat is tremendous, and on that account their houses are built with ventilators to catch the wind. These ventilators are placed on the side from which the wind comes, and they bring the wind down into the house to cool it. But for this the heat would be ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

... topic was beer. Uncommonly good, they agreed, the local brew, and each called for a second pint. What, they asked in concert, would England be without her ale? Shame on the base traffickers who enfeebled or poisoned this noble liquor! And how cool it was—ah! The right sort of cellar! He of the red hair hinted at a ...
— The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories • George Gissing

... cup. "Yes, and here too." After which he said nothing again till, first pouring in milk to cool it, he had drunk his tea down. "That's not literally true, you know. ...
— The Awkward Age • Henry James

... he said. "Give me some wine! And let it be cool! Madame Coquebert, hasten to cool it in the fountain: the day will be a ...
— The Queen Pedauque • Anatole France



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