stay cool

stay cool

1. Literally, to maintain a cool physical temperature, especially to avoid overheating. This heat wave has been brutal, but we've been staying cool, thanks to the new air-conditioning unit in the office. The workers stayed cool in the shade during their lunch break.
2. To remain calm and composed; to not become angry or flustered. Your opponent is going to try to antagonize you during the debate, so just stay cool. I always try to stay cool when dealing with angry customers, even when they're being totally unreasonable.
See also: cool, stay
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • (Have you) been keeping cool?
  • been keeping cool
  • been keeping cool?
  • cool out
  • cool someone out
  • cooled out
  • cool customer
  • cool beans
  • Cool beans!
  • I'm cool
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London experienced its hottest day in history on August 6, a day when desperate tourists mobbed Trafalgar Square's fountains in a bid to stay cool. Nearly 15,000 died in France during the heat wave, the worst ever recorded in the country, with temperatures reaching 104.
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Keep fresh and stay cool, boys and girls; it's summertime!
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When your exercising body is exposed to heat over time, usually about two weeks, physiological changes occur that improve your ability to stay cool. Once acclimated, you lose less sodium in your sweat, there is an increase in the volume of sweat you produce and the rate at which you sweat, and you start sweating at a lower core temperature.
Summertime sizzlers
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* Stay cool and calm; keep strong emotions in check.
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Thordarson said: "We have to stay cool and calm to make the play-offs."
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Crane, making back-toback appearances, said: "I've got to stay cool, don't I.
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