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play it cool

  1. Become or remain calm, as in When they start to tease you, just play it cool . [ Slang ; 1940s]

  2. Act cautiously and shrewdly, as in When they asked how much she earned, she played it cool . [ Slang ; 1940s]



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鈥淢y publicist asked if I鈥檇 be available to talk at the time. I鈥檓 not going to change around my day and sit by my phone. I was going to play it cool. The next thing I knew, my phone was blowing up with congratulations. It鈥檚 mind-blowing. Sometimes people will say, 鈥楢cademy Award nominee Monica Barbaro,鈥 and it stops me, whoa!鈥

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In the Netflix series 鈥淣obody Wants This,鈥 Adam Brody鈥檚 hot rabbi is more comfortable telling a woman he likes her than trying to play it cool.

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Wade, the conservative justices would feel that it was the better part of valor to play it cool for a while and let the smoke clear before they launch into another radical assault on American jurisprudence.

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I have to set aside my Gen-X impulses to play it cool, and say it: She was a martyr, and she paid the price so we can have this moment right now, more than 30 years later.

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Disappointed, I realized who it was but I still felt the need to play it cool.

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