Cool beans

November 22nd, 2009 by admin

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  1. Dave Khan:

    November 25th, 2009 at 1:59 pm

    Huh. I always assumed “cool beans” was simply the logical complement, or ironic counterpoint, to the exclamation “hot dog!” When “hot dog” became uncool, I would think “cool beans” would be a logical new saying. You know, since hot dogs & beans go together so well. How wonderful that these two phrases should appear in the same issue of The Word Detective!

  2. Tami:

    June 17th, 2012 at 1:20 pm

    2007 series of dr who / S4:E7 / episode # 48 / the dr’s daughter / donna noble says to General Cobb; “Oi, oi, oi. All right. Cool the beans, Rambo!” – seemed to mean “Hold on!”
    I haven’t found any references related to that phrase though Thanks.. Any info?

  3. sunbelt57:

    October 14th, 2012 at 2:00 pm

    I first heard “cool beans” during the dot com days and thought it was a reference to Java Beans: Beans in Java are reusable software components of the Java programming language.

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