Cool as a cucumber
Posted by R. Berg on February 06, 2003
The Word of the Day (www.oed.com/ cgi/display/wotd) at the Oxford English Dictionary is "cucumber," and "cool as a cucumber" is there traced to c. 1732.
Posted by R. Berg on February 06, 2003
The Word of the Day (www.oed.com/ cgi/display/wotd) at the Oxford English Dictionary is "cucumber," and "cool as a cucumber" is there traced to c. 1732.
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