cool under pressure

cool Adjective

— If something is cool, its temperature is between warm and cold. It's hard to keep the house nice and cool on a hot summer's day. The air was cool, so he put on his jacket. — If you say something is cool you mean it is good and you like it. That's a really cool cell phone! Where did you get it? Wow, your computer looks cool!

cool Verb

— If you cool something, you decrease the temperature. Blow on the coffee to cool it off. — If something cools, its temperature decreases. The soup was too hot, so he waited for it to cool a little.

under Preposition

— In the same place as another thing, but lower. They ate under the trees. — In the control of. He was under the leader of the organization. — In the middle of a process; experiencing. The idea is under the committee's judgement (judging).

pressure Noun

— In science, pressure is force applied over an area. It hurt when the doctor put pressure on her cut foot. He accidentally put too much air in his flat tire. The air put so much pressure on the tire that it exploded. — If a person is under pressure, they feel stressed. She has been under a lot of pressure lately because of her final exams. If she fails them, she will not graduate.

pressure Verb

— When you pressure someone, you try to make them do something, especially something they do not want to do. Her friends tried to pressure her into smoking, even after Maya kept saying "no." His parents tried to pressure him into becoming a lawyer, but Jamal knew he wanted to be a doctor.