As Cool As a Cucumber

As Cool As a Cucumber : Phrases

Meaning:

Calm and unruffled.




Origin:

Cool here means imperturbable rather than having a low temperature. Cucumbers are cool to the touch.

First recorded in John Gay's Poems, New Song on New Similies, 1732:

"I ... cool as a cucumber could see The rest of womankind."

From As Cool As to HOME PAGE