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.
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“I lost a cool hundred myself.”—Mackenzie.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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