- skip - Brewer’s

Cool Hundred (A)

or Cool Thousand (or any other sum) means entire, or the whole of £100. Cool, in this case, means not influenced by hot-headed enthusiasm or exaggeration.

1


“I lost a cool hundred myself.”—Mackenzie.

 

previous entry · index · next entry

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

previous entry · index · next entry

Conveyers
Conway Cabal (The), 1777
Conyger or Conigry
Cooing and Billing
Cook your Goose
Cooked
Cooking
Cooks
Cool Card
Cool as a Cucumber
Cool Hundred (A)
Cool Tankard (A) or Cool Cup
Coon (A) means a racoon
Cooper
Cooper
Cooper
Cooper’s Hill
Coot
Cop (A)
Cop (A)
Cop