cool as emotion construction

Part of language	English
Meaning of the construction	emotionless, without passion
comment	first attested: Old English, Beowulf (Oxford English Dictionary)

Construction elements

Examples

Example 1

Text	However, the West's cool attitude towards the King over his pro-Iraqi stance was partly offset by Jordan's willingness to take in vast numbers of refugees from Iraq and Kuwait during August.
comment	BNC: Keesings Contemporary Archives (1985-1994). 3238 s-units.

Example 2

Text	He is staying cool under pressure.

Links

is a metaphorical extension of	cool (temperature) construction	English
Construction Element of	Keep a cool head construction	English

Research

Metadata

Date Created	2025-11-28
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).

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