Keep your Cool

What it means

Stay calm in a situation that gives you every reason not to be.

Where it comes from

Cool has meant unruffled for centuries, long before it meant admirable. The second sense came out of Black American English and jazz in the last century. This phrase uses the older one.

The puzzle it came from

Keep your Cool was the answer to the Phrasicle of July 6, 2025. The clue read ____ your ____, and the words came out of a grid where every neighbouring pair makes a two-word phrase.

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Phrases like this one

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