Cool as a Cucumber
What it means
Completely calm in a situation that would rattle almost anybody else.
Where it comes from
The comparison is literally accurate. The inside of a cucumber stays cooler than the air around it, and the poet John Gay had the phrase in print by the 1700s.
The puzzle it came from
Cool as a Cucumber was the answer to the Phrasicle of August 26, 2025. The clue read ____ as a ____, and the words came out of a grid where every neighbouring pair makes a two-word phrase.
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french
vanilla
bean
bag
check
pickled
cucumber
water
fountain
pop
ice
cream
cheese
wheel
chair
look
cool
breeze
block
party
Phrasicle: Cool as a Cucumber