what is the meaning of cold turkey in idiomatic expression?
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Cold turkey means to quit something abruptly and without preparation or fanfare. ... Originally, cold turkey meant to speak plainly and bluntly, as in talk cold turkey. Today, someone who speaks plainly is said to talk turkey and someone who ceases an addictive activity such as smoking is said to be quitting cold turkey.
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(idiomatic) To insult, to belittle. (idiomatic) To reduce the amount of something. He wants to cut down on extra steps.
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(idiomatic) To refuse, decline, or deny. ... (idiomatic) To reduce the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light. Turn down the television so I can hear myself think.
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take/need a cold shower. humorous. an expression used when someone needs to calm down when something has made them feel sexually excited: Did you see the dress she was wearing? I think I'd better go and take a cold shower!
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Figure of speech: This is a rhetorical device that uses words in distinctive ways to achieve special effects. ... Idiom: An idiom is a figure of speech – a phrase that means something other than its literal meaning. For example: get cold feet (meaning: become timid), or rat race (meaning= struggle for success).
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Page 1. 79. 5. Idiomatic Expressions. An idiom is a phrase or expression whose meaning can't be understood from the ordinary meanings of the words in it.
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intransitive verb. 1 : to stop doing or taking something. 2 : to leave one alone wish you'd just lay off.
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#4 – give someone the cold shoulder This idiom means to treat someone in an unfriendly way and/or ignoring them, usually on purpose because you don't like the person or because they have done something to make you dislike them.
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An idiom is a phrase or fixed expression that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning. While talking in conversational language, we use Idioms.
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Idiomatic expressions are a type of informal language that have a meaning different from the meaning of the words in the expression. Here's an example of an idiomatic expression: Hold your tongue.
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Idiomatic expressions are a type of informal language that have a meaning different from the meaning of the words in the expression. Here's an example of an idiomatic expression: Hold your tongue. This idiom doesn't actually mean that you should stick your fingers in your mouth and grab a hold of your tongue.
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Interjection. (humorous, slang) Expression of shock and alarm. Yikes!
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An idiom is a form of expression that is particular to a certain person or group of people. If your friend always says, "squirrelly nuteriffic!" when she means something is great, she's using her own idiom. Idiom comes from the Greek idios, which means personal.
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In a purposely ruthless and unfeeling manner, as in The whole family was murdered in cold blood. This expression alludes to the notion that blood is the seat of emotion and is hot in passion and cold in calm. The term therefore means not “in the heat of passion,” but “in a calculated, deliberate manner.” [
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(transitive, idiomatic) To cease, quit, stop (doing something). ... (transitive and intransitive, idiomatic) To stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone; to leave (someone) alone. Just lay off, okay! I've had enough!
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cold comfort. Slight or no consolation. For example, He can't lend us his canoe but will tell us where to rent one—that's cold comfort. The adjective cold was being applied to comfort in this sense by the early 1300s, and Shakespeare used the idiom numerous times.
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adjective. /əˈluf/ [not usually before noun] not friendly or interested in other people synonym distant, remote He was a cold man, aloof and distant. She stayed aloof while the argument went on around her.