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cool_head

cool head

English

Noun

cool head (plural cool heads)

  1. (idiomatic) A calm, focused demeanor and mindset; a person having such characteristics.
    • 1829, James Fenimore Cooper, The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish, ch. 23:
      [H]e had been engaged in divers hostile expeditions against the aborigines, and on all occasions had he shown a cool head and a resolute mind.
    • 1896, Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, ch. 5:
      Joan had a cool head—the only cool head there—and she took command and brought order out of that chaos.
    • 1984 June 8, Janet Maslin, "Film: Ghostbusters, with Murray and Aykroyd," New York Times (retrieved 20 March 2014):
      It requires a cool head, which Mr. Murray most assuredly has, as well as the ability to remain unruffled by bizarre apparitions.
    • 2006 Nov. 19, Christine Gorman, "What Ails The CDC," Time (retrieved 20 March 2014):
      A telegenic personality who connected easily with journalists, Gerberding quickly became the public face of the CDC—a rare cool head among a parade of increasingly confused health bureaucrats.

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