Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

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.

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

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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