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Brewer's: 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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