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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