cool one's jets
To become less excited, intense, or active; to exercise self-restraint.
Star Wars fans who positively can't cool their jets until the 19 May opening of Star Wars prequel The Phantom Menace need wait no longer than until early May.
adj
Of a mildly low temperature.
I like cool weather the most 'cause it's not too hot to wear a jacket but I won't be too cold in my shorts.
The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…].
Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
Linen has made cool and breathable clothing for millennia.
Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.
Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
If you have a reddish complexion, you should mainly wear cool colors.
Not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
Be cool. There's no need to panic.
Unenthusiastic; lukewarm; skeptical.
His proposals had a cool reception.
noun
A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
in the cool of the morning
A calm temperament.
The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.
verb
To lose heat, to get colder.
I like to let my tea cool before drinking it so I don't burn my tongue.
To make cooler, less warm.
Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.
To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980.
To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts.
To kill, murder.
Maybe he would die. That would mean I had murdered him. I smiled, trying the idea on for size. One of the things that always had cheesed me a little was that I had no kills to my credit. I'd been in plenty of rumbles, but somehow, I'd never cooled anyone. Well maybe now I had my first one. I couldn't feel very proud of skulling an old man, but at least I could say that I'd scored. That was a big kick.
Big-mouth got up as fast as he could, and I was thinking how much heart he had. But I ran toward him like my life depended on it; I wanted to cool him.