| Part of language | Informal English |
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| Meaning of the construction | positive evaluation: admirable, relaxed, stylish, sophisticated, fashionable |
| comment | first attested: 1884, cf. OED |
| Text |
For years, anything more than a slick of Vaseline or a brush of mascara was considered too try-hard to be |
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| comment | BNC Newspaper, 1992 |
| Text |
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| Text |
The movie is |
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| is a metaphorical extension of | cool (temperature) construction | English |
| Construction Element of | Cool! exclamative construction | Informal English |
| Date Created | 2025-11-28 |
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| Annotator | Julia Boos |
| Annotator | Elizaveta Petrenko |
| Annotator | Lina Weigelt |
| Annotator | Elodie Winckel |
| References | Davies (ed.) (2024). British National Corpus. |
| References | Davies (ed.) The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). |
| References | DWDS - Digitale Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (2025). cool. |
| References | Oxford English Dictionary (2025). cool (adjective, Adverb, Interjection). |