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    Why do the English say "as cool as a cucumber"? Is a cucumber cool?

    Question #60640. Asked by loominitsa. (Nov 20 05 6:56 AM)


    my_baby_love

    		Refrigirated they are.

    Nov 20 05, 9:05 AM
    Flynn_17

    		I never say it.
    Maybe other Brits do.
    It can't be just the English, though.

    Nov 20 05, 10:54 AM
    JoshCaleb12

    		I've heard the expression here in the USA... so, I'd guess it is an "English-speaking" expression...

    "This turned up in the eighteenth century in the slangy expression 'cool as a cucumber' that is still with us..."

    http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-coo1.htm

    Nov 20 05, 11:02 AM

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