Keep a cool head construction

Part of language English
Meaning of the construction remain composed
comment first attested 1718, cf. OED

Construction elements

Examples

Example 1

Text Luke wants to keep a cool head ... even if Madonna calls.
comment BNC, Newspaper, 1992

Research

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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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