Stylish, a doctor with the queen going round South Africa with coppers, very calm (4,2,1,8)
I believe the answer is:
cool as a cucumber
'africa with coppers very calm' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether it can be defined by this definition.
'stylish a doctor with the queen going round south' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'stylish' could be 'cool' and 'cool' is present in the answer.
'a' is present in the answer.
'doctor' could be 'mb' (Bachelor of Medicine, Medicinae Baccalaureus) and 'mb' is present in the answer.
'queen' could be 'er' (abbreviation for Elizabeth Regina) and 'er' is found within the answer.
'south' could be 's' (abbreviation) and 's' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?