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What does “cool someone off” here mean?

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Rebecca

"Cool someone off" here means "make you feel uninterested". The narrator is saying that Lord Farquaad should not become uninterested in Fiona just because she lives in a castle surrounded by lava and a dragon, because she has good qualities worth fighting those things for.

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