C
Idioms beginning with "C"
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[cook one's goose] {v. phr.}, {slang}
To ruin someone hopelessly; destroy one's future expectations or good name.
The bank treasurer cooked his own goose when he stole the bank's funds.
* /She cooked John's goose by reporting what she knew to the […]
[cook up] {v.}, {informal}
To plan and put together; make up; invent.
The boys cooked up an excuse to explain their absence from school.
[cool as a cucumber] {adj. phr.}, {informal}
Very calm and brave; not nervous, worried, or anxious; not excited; composed.
Bill is a good football quarterback, always cool as a cucumber.
[cool customer] {n.}
Someone who is calm and in total control of himself; someone showing little emotion.
Jim never gets too excited about anything; he is a cool customer.
[cool down] or [cool off] {v.}
To lose or cause to lose the heat of any deep feeling (as love, enthusiasm, or anger); make or become calm, cooled or indifferent; lose interest.
A heated argument can be settled better if both sides cool down first.
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[cool one's heels] {v. phr.}, {slang}
To be kept waiting by another's pride or rudeness; be forced to wait by someone in power or authority; wait.
He cooled his heels for an hour in another room before the great man would see him.
* /I was left to […]