Ice-calm

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Extreme calm, utter calmness idiomatic, uncountable

    "There was no distracting Rosol's ice-calm as he killed the fifth set and match. Ace, cross-court forehand winner, ace, forehand winner – a blistering eighth game took him to 5-3 and informed Nadal precisely how nerveless the Czech was."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Extremely calm idiomatic, not-comparable

Example

More examples

"There was no distracting Rosol's ice-calm as he killed the fifth set and match. Ace, cross-court forehand winner, ace, forehand winner – a blistering eighth game took him to 5-3 and informed Nadal precisely how nerveless the Czech was."

Etymology

From ice + calm.

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