cool it
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Verb edit
cool it (third-person singular simple present cools it, present participle cooling it, simple past and past participle cooled it)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cool, it.
- (informal) Calm down, relax, take a time out.
- We did tell him to cool it but he just got more and more irate.
- 2000, American Psycho:
- MCDERMOTT: Oh my God, Bateman, you want me to fry you up some fucking potato pancakes? Some latkes?
BATEMAN: No, just cool it with the antisemitic remarks.