cool it

verb — 2 senses

cool it

verb

1

Informal Calm down, relax, take a time out.

We did tell him to cool it but he just got more and more irate.
MCDERMOTT: Oh my God, Bateman, you want me to fry you up some fucking potato pancakes? Some latkes? BATEMAN: No, just cool it with the antisemitic remarks.2000, Mary Harron, Guinevere Turner, American Psycho:

2

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cool, it.

Synonyms: cool one's jets

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