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Play it Cool

What it means

Stay deliberately unbothered about something you actually care about a great deal.

Where it comes from

Cool as praise for composure spread through American jazz circles in the 1940s. It named a musical style too, quieter and more restrained than the bebop it followed.

The puzzle it came from

Play it Cool was the answer to the Phrasicle of September 5, 2025. The clue read ____ it ____, and the words came out of a grid where every neighbouring pair makes a two-word phrase.

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Phrasicle: Play it Cool

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