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ice cool

ice cool adjective: calm and composed in a difficult situation.

Adjective

ice cool (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) calm and composed in a difficult situation.
    • The ice cool Van der Vaart placed the kick in exactly the same place and beat Jaaskelainen again but Clattenburg ordered a retake for encroachment, with replays showing that Jermain Defoe and Wilson Palacios had strayed into the area before the ball was struck.2011 February 5, Michael Kevin Darling, “Tottenham 2 - 1 Bolton”, in BBC

Synonyms of ice cool

Questions about ice cool

What does ice cool mean?
Ice cool means calm and composed in a difficult situation.
What part of speech is ice cool?
Ice cool is an adjective.

Words near ice cool in the dictionary

  1. ice climbing
  2. ice coffee
  3. ice coffees
  4. ice cold
  5. ice colds
  6. ice cool
  7. ice core
  8. ice cores
  9. ice crawler
  10. ice crawlers
  11. ice cream

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