остыть(перестать горячиться: 'You were not – how shall I put it? – in any sense intimate?' 'No, no. Simply on Good-morning-good-morning-lovely-morning- is-it-not terms if I happened to run into her in the street.' 'Nothing more?' 'Nothing more.' I had said the right thing. He went off the boil, and when he next spoke, it was without bulldog and chump chop effects. (P.G. Wodehouse) – он остыл/перестал кипятитьсяART Vancouver)