Cool hand


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: these four cool-hand lunatics

noun phrase

A person not easily disconcerted •Sir Thomas Overbury (d. 1613) wrote that a cool hand is ”one who accounts bashfulness the wickedest thing in the world, and therefore studies impudence” (1600s+)

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