one is terrified or horrified My blood ran cold when I saw the man fall off the ladder.
catch a cold
get a cold I caught a bad cold last week and had to miss three weeks of work.
catch a cold (catch cold)
be sick with a cold, come down with a cold I caught a cold while we were in Vancouver.
catch one's death of cold
become very ill (with a cold, flu etc) The little boy was told to be careful in the rain or he would catch his death of cold.
cold call
a visit to an employer or customer without an appointment Sam got a job by making cold calls - by knocking on doors and asking for work.
cold comfort
small comfort, very little relief Having Jim's money is cold comfort for his wife if he dies.
cold feet
a loss of courage or nerve I planned to go to Europe with my cousin but he got cold feet and decided not to go.
cold fish
person who is unfriendly or doesn
cold hard cash
cash, coins and bills I paid for the stereo in cold hard cash.
cold, hard cash
"actual money, dollar bills; not a cheque or credit card" No cheques - I want cold, hard cash for that car.
cold shoulder
(See give you the cold shoulder)
cold turkey
abruptly, completely, not gradually Barb stopped smoking, cold turkey. No plan, no program.
coldcock
punch without warning, jump Buddy coldcocked the pitcher - hit him when he wasn't looking.
get cold feet
become afraid at the last minute He got cold feet and cancelled his plan to go to China.
give someone the cold shoulder
be unfriendly to someone He gave her the cold shoulder at the party.
give you the cold shoulder
be unfriendly toward you, turn away from you, stand away If you forget her birthday she
in cold blood
without feeling, without mercy He's accused of killing a Mountie in cold blood.
it's cold/hot
the weather is cold/hot, it's raining In January it's cold in Edmonton but hot in Chile.
leave out in the cold
not invite, exclude Kim didn't receive an invitation. She was left out in the cold.
left out in the cold
(See leave out in the cold)
out cold
unconscious, in a faint As soon as the patient entered the operating room he was out cold because of the anesthesia.
out in the cold
not included in a group, not invited He was left out in the cold because of his religious beliefs.
stop dead/cold
stop very quickly or with great force He stopped dead when he saw the bear in the middle of the road.
stop you cold
stop you quickly, grind to a halt One look from the old witch will stop you cold. What a fierce gaze!
throw cold water on
discourage, cause you to lose interest Don't be negative. Don't throw cold water on our travel plans.
a cold day in Hell
never
a cold piece of work
a difficult person
ass cold
very cold--generally, below 0 degrees Celsius:
cold
1. intensely: "Stone cold rhymin'" -- Young MC (Stone cold rhymin') 2. mean, not nice; cruel
cold-blooded
rude or unfair:"That was so cold-blooded, when she just ignored me!"
cold piece
it's short for "a cold piece of work" which refers to someone who's overly demanding or difficult
coldfish
a person who is unemotional or insensitive
the cold shoulder
the act of deliberately ignoring; derived from the s.e. verb - to cold shoulder."She smiled straight at me but I gave her the cold shoulder"
catch cold
be sick with a cold 感冒 She caught cold and had a severe headache.她感冒了,头痛得厉害。
pour cold water on
Idiom(s): pour cold water on something AND dash cold water on something; throw cold water on something
Theme: DISCOURAGEMENT
to discourage doing something; to reduce enthusiasm for something. • When my father said I couldn't have the car, he poured cold water on my plans. • John threw cold water on the whole project by refusing to participate. • I hate to dash cold water on your party, but you cannot use the house that night.
make one's blood run cold
Idiom(s): make one's blood run cold
Theme: SHOCK
to shock or horrify someone. • The terrible story in the newspaper made my blood run cold. • I could tell you things about prisons that would make your blood run cold.
leave sb out in the cold
Idiom(s): leave sb out in the cold
Theme: EXCLUSION
to fail to inform someone; to exclude someone. • I don't know what's going on. They left me out in the cold. • Tom wasn't invited. They left him out in the cold.
knock sb out cold
Idiom(s): knock sb out (cold)
Theme: ATTACK
to knock someone unconscious. (Informal.) • The blow knocked the boxer out cold. • The attacker knocked the old man out cold.
keep sb out in the cold
Idiom(s): keep sb out in the cold
Theme: SECRECY
to prevent someone from being informed. • Please don't keep me out in the cold. Tell me what's going on. • Don't keep your supervisor out in the cold. Tell her the truth.
in cold storage
Idiom(s): in cold storage
Theme: STORAGE
stored away for future use; in an out-of-the-way place. • I have had this special gift in cold storage for an occasion such as this. • Todd had been keeping himself in cold storage, trying to study for his exams.
go cold turkey
Idiom(s): go cold turkey
Theme: STOP
to stop (doing something) without tapering off. (Slang. Originally drug slang. Now concerned with breaking any habit.) • I had to stop smoking, so I went cold turkey. It's awful! • When heroin addicts go cold turkey, they get terribly sick.
give sb the cold shoulder
Idiom(s): give sb the cold shoulder
Theme: REJECTION
to ignore someone; to reject someone. • She gave me the cold shoulder when I asked her to the party. • Sally has been giving me the cold shoulder.
get the cold shoulder
Idiom(s): get the cold shoulder
Theme: REJECTION
to be ignored; to be rejected. (Informal.) • If you invite her to a party, you'll just get the cold shoulder. • I thought that Sally and I were friends, but lately I've been getting the cold shoulder.
blow hot and cold
Idiom(s): blow hot and cold
Theme: INDECISION
to be changeable or uncertain (about something). (Fixed order.) • He keeps blowing hot and cold on the question of moving to the country. • He blows hot and cold about this. I wish he'd make up his mind.
a cold fish
Idiom(s): a cold fish
Theme: PEOPLE - NEGATIVE
a person who is distant and unfeeling. (Informal or slang.) • Bob is so dull—a real cold fish. • She hardly ever speaks to anyone. She's a cold fish.
take one's death of cold
Idiom(s): catch one's death (of cold) AND take one's death of cold
Theme: SICKNESS
to contract a cold; to catch a serious cold. • If I go out in this weather, I'll catch my death of cold. • Dress up warm or you'll take your death of cold. • Put on your raincoat or you'll catch your death.
take cold
Idiom(s): catch cold AND take cold
Theme: SICKNESS
to contract a cold (the disease). • Please close the window, or we'll all catch cold. • I take cold every year at this time.
dash cold water on
Idiom(s): pour cold water on something AND dash cold water on something; throw cold water on something
Theme: DISCOURAGEMENT
to discourage doing something; to reduce enthusiasm for something. • When my father said I couldn't have the car, he poured cold water on my plans. • John threw cold water on the whole project by refusing to participate. • I hate to dash cold water on your party, but you cannot use the house that night.
As cold as ice
This idiom can be used to describe a person who does not show any emotion.
As cold as stone
If something is as cold as stone, it is very cold. If a person is as cold as stone, they are unemotional.
a algid day in Hell
never
a algid fish
Idiom(s): a algid fish
Theme: PEOPLE - NEGATIVE
a actuality who is abroad and unfeeling. (Informal or slang.) • Bob is so dull—a absolute algid fish. • She hardly anytime speaks to anyone. She's a algid fish.
a algid allotment of work
a difficult person
As algid as ice
This argot can be acclimated to call a actuality who does not appearance any emotion.
As algid as stone
If article is as algid as stone, it is absolute cold. If a actuality is as algid as stone, they are unemotional.
ass cold
very cold--generally, beneath 0 degrees Celsius:
blood runs cold
one is abashed or abashed My claret ran algid back I saw the man abatement off the ladder.
blood runs cold|blood|blood freezes|blood turns to
You are algid or algidity from abundant alarm or horror; you are abashed or horrified. Usually acclimated with a possessive. The abhorrence cine fabricated the children's claret run cold.Mary's claret froze back she had to airing through the cemetery at night.Oscar's claret angry to ice back he saw the adumbration canyon by alfresco the window. Compare: HAIR STAND ON END, THE CREEPS.
blow hot and cold
Idiom(s): blow hot and cold
Theme: INDECISION
to be capricious or ambiguous (about something). (Fixed order.) • He keeps alarming hot and algid on the catechism of affective to the country. • He assault hot and algid about this. I ambition he'd accomplish up his mind.
blow hot and cold|blow|cold|hot
v. phr. To change your agency or brand often; be arbitrary or changeable. Tom assault hot and algid about advancing out for the baseball team; he cannot decide.Mary blew hot and algid about activity to college; every day she afflicted her mind.The boys will get annoyed of Ann's alarming hot and cold.
catch a cold
get a algid I bent a bad algid aftermost anniversary and had to absence three weeks of work.
catch a algid (catch cold)
be ailing with a cold, appear down with a algid I bent a algid while we were in Vancouver.
catch cold
be ailing with a algid 感冒 She bent algid and had a astringent headache.她感冒了,头痛得厉害。
catch cold|catch|cold|take|take cold
v. phr. 1. To get a accepted cold-weather amore that causes a active nose, sneezing, and sometimes abscessed throat and agitation or added symptoms. Don't get your anxiety wet or you'll bolt cold. 2. informal To bolt extemporaneous or not accessible for a catechism or abrupt happening. I had not advised my assignment carefully, and the teacher's catechism bent me cold.The opposing aggregation was big and abiding of winning, and they were bent algid by the fast, adamantine arena of our abate players.
catch one's afterlife of cold
become absolute ill (with a cold, flu etc) The little boy was told to be accurate in the rain or he would bolt his afterlife of cold.
cold
1. intensely: "Stone algid rhymin'" -- Young MC (Stone algid rhymin') 2. mean, not nice; cruel
cold call
a arrangement to an employer or chump after an arrangement Sam got a job by authoritative algid calls - by animadversion on doors and allurement for work.
cold cash
cold cash Also, hard cash. Absolute bill (bills and coins); money anon available, paid at the time of a purchase. For example, Will you lower the bulk if I pay in algid banknote instead of application a acclaim card? or We accept alone a bound bulk of adamantine cash—the blow is in accounts receivable. [First bisected of 1900s]
cold cash|cash|cold|hard|hard cash
n. Money that is paid at the time of purchase; absolute money; argent and bills. Mr. Jones bought a new car and paid algid banknote for it.Some food advertise things alone for algid cash. Compare: CASH ON THE BARRELHEAD.
cold comfort
small comfort, absolute little abatement Accepting Jim's money is algid abundance for his wife if he dies.
cold comfort|cold|comfort
n. Article that makes a actuality in agitation feel absolute little bigger or alike worse. When Tim absent the race, it was algid abundance to him to apprehend that he could try afresh in two weeks.Mary spent her vacation ailing in bed and Jane's letter about her cruise was algid comfort.
Cold day in hell
This is acclimated as a anticipation there is no adventitious some accident or action will anytime happen.'There will be a algid day in hell afore he manages it.'
cold feet
a accident of adventuresomeness or assumption I planned to go to Europe with my accessory but he got algid anxiety and absitively not to go.
cold feet, get
cold feet, get Also, have algid feet. Retreat from an undertaking; lose one's nerve. For example, I got algid anxiety back I abstruse the cruise involves white-water rafting, or Don't calculation on including her—she's been accepted to accept algid anxiety in the past. The agent of this appellation has been lost. In aboriginal 17th-century Italy it meant to be abbreviate of money, but that faculty has never been acclimated in English. [Late 1800s]
cold feet|cold|feet
n. phr., informal A accident of adventuresomeness or nerve; a abortion or accident of aplomb in yourself. Ralph was activity to ask Mary to ball with him but he got algid anxiety and didn't.
cold fish
person who is acrimonious or doesn
cold fish|cold|fish
n., informal A anomalous person; a actuality who is acrimonious or does not mix with others. No one knows the new doctor, he is a algid fish.Nobody invites Eric to parties because he is a algid fish.
cold hands, balmy heart
cold hands, balmy heart Not assuming one's animosity does not announce abridgement of feeling. For example, Dan rarely sends flowers or anything, but he's a case of algid hands, balmy heart. Why a actually algid duke should announce accord or amore is not absolutely clear, but this announcement has been so acclimated back about 1900, and the Germans accept an identical adage (kalte Hand, warmes Herz).
cold adamantine cash
cash, bill and bills I paid for the stereo in algid adamantine cash.
Cold ablaze of day
If you see things in the algid ablaze of day, you see them as they absolutely are, not as you ability appetite them to be.
cold piece
it's abbreviate for "a algid allotment of work" which refers to addition who's ever ambitious or difficult
cold shoulder
(See accord you the algid shoulder)
cold shoulder|cold|shoulder
n., informal Acrimonious analysis of a person, a assuming of animosity for a actuality or of attractive down on a person. Acclimated in the cliches "give the algid shoulder" or "turn a algid accept to" or "get the algid shoulder". When Bob asked Mary for a date she gave him the algid shoulder.The associates board angry a algid accept to Jim's appeal to accompany the club.
cold shower
cold shower A decidedly arctic reception, reaction, or response, as in The baby aborigine assembly was a algid battery to the League of Women Voters. The allusion in this appellation is to the abrupt and not consistently affable aftereffect of an ice-cold shower. [Second bisected of 1900s]
cold snap
cold snap Also, cold spell. A abbreviate aeon of almighty algid weather, as in The contempo algid breeze has threatened the crop. The aboriginal announcement apparently likens snap in the faculty of “a abrupt chaw or cut” to abrupt abrupt cold. The alternative is added obvious, spell accepting been acclimated in the faculty of “a bender or about-face at something” back the aboriginal 1700s. [Early 1800s]
cold snap|cold|snap
n. A abbreviate time of quick change from balmy acclimate to cold. The algid breeze dead aggregate in the garden.
If article brings you out in a algid sweat, it frightens you a lot.
cold turkey
abruptly, completely, not gradually Barb chock-full smoking, algid turkey. No plan, no program.
cold turkey|cold|turkey
adv., slang, informal 1. Abruptly and after medical aid to abjure from the use of an addictive biologic or from a austere bubbler problem. Joe is a absolute adventurous guy; he kicked the addiction algid turkey. 2. n. An instance of abandonment from drugs, alcohol, or cigarette smoking. Joe did a algid turkey.
cold war
cold war the Algid War the aeon (1945-91) of algid war amid the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
cold war|cold|war
n. A attempt that is agitated on by added agency and not by absolute fighting; a war after cutting or bombing. After World War II, a algid war began amid Russia and the United States.
cold-blooded
rude or unfair:"That was so cold-blooded, back she aloof abandoned me!"
cold-shoulder|cold|shoulder
v., informal To act appear a person; with animosity or scorn; be acrimonious to. Fred cold-shouldered his old acquaintance back they anesthetized on the street.It is boorish and barbarous to boycott people. Compare: BRUSH OFF2, HIGH-HAT, LOOK DOWN ONE'S NOSE AT.
cold, adamantine cash
"actual money, dollar bills; not a cheque or acclaim card" No cheques - I appetite cold, adamantine banknote for that car.
coldcock
punch after warning, jump Buddy coldcocked the bullpen - hit him back he wasn't looking.
Colder than a witches tit
If it is colder than a witches tit, it is acutely algid outside.
coldfish
a actuality who is apathetic or insensitive
come in from the cold
come in from the cold Also, come in out of the cold. Return to apartment and safety, be accustomed into a group. For example, Bill was fed up with traveling on his own for the aggregation and hoped they'd let him appear in from the cold, or After years of not actuality arrive to join, Steve was assuredly asked to appear in out of the cold. This phrase, about acclimated figuratively, acquired bill in the 1960s with John LeCarré's acknowledged spy novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, about a adept British spy in the algid war who longed to carelessness the bedraggled tricks of his profession. Also see come in out of the rain, apperceive abundant to.
dash algid baptize on
Idiom(s): pour algid baptize on article AND birr algid baptize on something; bandy algid baptize on something
Theme: DISCOURAGEMENT
to abash accomplishing something; to abate activity for something. • Back my ancestor said I couldn't accept the car, he caked algid baptize on my plans. • John threw algid baptize on the accomplished activity by abnegation to participate. • I abhorrence to birr algid baptize on your party, but you cannot use the abode that night.
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