This week I will post with cold idiom.
Here are some practical
idioms with the word “cold”
Go cold
turkey
To suddenly and completely stop doing
something, esp. a bad habit
I had to diet, because I’m getting fat. I have
to cold turkey now.
Cold Fish
An aloof or emotionally reserved person.
.
I
hate to talks with a cold fish like that. He didn’t even care about people in
around him.
Cold
Shoulder
To snub, resist or reject somebody; to regard
somebody distantly.
I’m
very mad with Jackson, so I give him the cold shoulder.
In Cold Blood
Without feeling; with cruel intent. (Frequently said of a crime,
especially murder.)
“The killer walked up and shot the woman in cold blood. How
insulting! For a person to say something like that in cold blood is just
horrible.”
Be Cold Comfort
If something someone tells you to make you feel better about a bad situation is cold comfort,
it does not
make you feel better (usually + to )
The doctor said only his hands are paralysed, not
his whole body, but I think that will be cold comfort to him.
Leave Somebody (out) In The Cold
To ignore or not include someone.
If you can't be pleasant to other people, then
you will most certainly be left out in the cold.
Stop Someone Cold
To halt someone immediately.
When you told us the bad news, it stopped me
cold.
A Stone Cold Fox
A very fine and sexy woman.
That girl is a stone cold fox. What’s her name?
Cold Call
To call a sales prospect
from a list of persons one has never met.
Things have to be pretty bad when the senior
brokers at a major house have to cold call people to get business.
Feel/Go
Hot And Cold (all over)
To feel that your body is hot and cold at the same time,
Because you have had a shock When I suddenly saw
him again in the street after all these years, I went hot and cold all over.
By : Zsal Zsabila
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