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"Everyone seems to be as cool as a cucumber about the prospect of abseiling, but I am sure that that will change when they are dangling at the end of a rope!"
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- be an easy touch
- be an item
- be an open book
- be an soft touch
- be another kettle of fish
- be another matter
- be another of life's great mysteries
- be another thing
- be another/a different matter
- be anybody's guess
- be anybody's/anyone's guess
- be anyone's
- be armed to the teeth
- be around
- be art and part of
- be art and part of (something)
- be as (something) as all get-out
- be as (something) as they come
- be as American as apple pie
- be as bald as a coot
- be as bright as a button
- be as brown as a berry
- be as clear as crystal
- be as clear as day
- be as clear as mud
- be as cool as a cucumber
- be as cute as a button
- be as daft as a brush
- be as dead as a dodo
- be as deaf as a post
- be as dry as a bone
- be as dull as dishwater
- be as fit as a fiddle
- be as full as a boot
- be as gentle as a lamb
- be as good as (one's) word
- be as good as dead
- be as good as gold
- be as good as gone
- be as good as new
- be as good as your word
- be as happy as a sandboy
- be as happy as Larry
- be as high as a kite
- be as honest as the day is long
- be as keen as mustard
- be as light as a feather
- be as mad as a hornet
- be as mad as a March hare
- be as nice as pie
- be as nothing (compared) to (someone or something)
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- be appropriate
- be apt
- be are nothing compared to us
- be armed
- be armed to the teeth
- be around
- be art and part of
- be art and part of (something)
- be art and part of something
- be as (something) as all get-out
- be as (something) as they come
- be as [crazy etc.] as they come
- be as [fast etc.] as all get out
- be as American as apple pie
- be as as all get out
- be as as all get-out
- be as as they come
- be as bald as a coot
- be as black as is painted
- be as black as one is painted
- be as blind as a bat
- be as bright as a button
- be as brown as a berry
- be as busy as a bee
- be as clean as a new pin
- be as clean as a whistle
- be as clear as crystal
- be as clear as day
- be as clear as mud
- be as cold as ice
- be as cool as a cucumber
- be as cute as a button
- be as daft as a brush
- be as dead as a dodo
- be as dead as a doornail
- be as deaf as a doorknob
- be as deaf as a doornail
- be as deaf as a post
- be as different as chalk and cheese
- be as dry as a bone
- be as dull as dishwater
- be as dull as ditchwater
- be as easy as a-b-c
- be as easy as abc
- be as easy as falling off a log
- be as easy as pie
- be as easy as rolling off a log
- be as easy as taking candy from a baby
- be as fit as a fiddle
- be as fit as a flea
- be as flat as a pancake
- be as fresh as a daisy
- be as full as a boot
- be as full as a tick
- be as funny as a barrel of monkeys
- be as gentle as a lamb
- be as good as (one's) word
- be as good as dead
- be as good as gold
- be as good as gone
- be as good as her word
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