Idioms With “Cold” and Meanings, Along with Example Sentences

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List of idioms with the word “Cold” and the meanings. Commonly used idioms related to “cold” and their meanings along with example sentences.

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Idioms about “COLD”

  1. To catch cold” – This means to become sick with a cold. Example: “She caught a cold after working outside in the rain all day.”
  2. “Cold turkey” – This means to stop using drugs abruptly. Example: “He quit smoking cold turkey and has been clean for a year now.”
  3. “To be left out in the cold” – This means to be excluded or ignored. Example: “After the company restructuring, many employees were left out in the cold and lost their jobs.”
  4. “To be cold-blooded” – This means to be cruel or lacking in emotion. Example: “The murderer was cold-blooded and showed no remorse for his crime.”
  5. “To give someone the cold shoulder” – This means to ignore or reject someone. Example: “She gave her ex-best friend the cold shoulder after the argument.”
  6. Cold feet” – This means to have doubts or become nervous. Example: “He had cold feet on his wedding day and almost didn’t go through with it.”
  7. “To be as cold as ice” – This means to be emotionless or unfeeling. Example: “The businessman was as cold as ice and wouldn’t negotiate the price even for his own mother.”

Blow/ run hot and cold: to have mixed or inconsistent feelings about something
1. I don’t understand Jack. One day he’s really nice to me, and the next day he couldn’t care less. He blows hot and cold.
2. Pam blows hot and cold about studying nursing. Sometimes she says she would enjoy it and sometimes she says it would be too much work.

Leave (someone) / get left out in the cold; to shun someone; to exclude someone from a place or activity
1. Mary seemed not to care for anyone else’s feelings, and managed to offend just about everyone. Eventually she got left out in the cold and no one included her in their plans or parties.
2. I don’t know what I did wrong, but I’d like to make up for it. Please don’t leave me out in the cold.
The expression suggests that when a person is excluded from the group or mainstream, he or she is outside, where it is cold.

Cold feet; too scared to do something
1. Joel wanted to ask Mr. Lee for a pay raise, but when Joel saw him, he got cold feet and just said, “Good morning.”
2. The soldier got cold feet when the pilot told him it was time to parachute out of the airplane.
Synonyms: chicken out; have second thoughts

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Cold Turkey; abruptly; not gradually
1. Harry decided to stop smoking cigarettes all at once. He decided to quit cold turkey.
2. Many doctors believe that if you want to give up using a drug, you can’t do it gradually. You have to stop cold turkey.

Get/give (someone) the cold shoulder; to ignore someone intentionally
1. Margie and Steve used to be close friends, but now every time they meet, she gives him the cold shoulder.
2. When we bought our new house, we thought everyone would welcome us to the neighborhood. But people give us the cold shoulder when we try to be friendly and neighborly.
Synonym: turn up (one’s) nose at (someone/something)
Whereas give someone the cold shoulder is used only with people, turn up one’s nose can be applied to both people and things.

Give (someone) the cold shoulder; to be unfriendly to somebody
1. Audrey tried to make up with Josh after their fight, but Josh didn’t respond. He gave her the cold shoulder.
2. Beatrice was forced to find a new photography club when the members of her old club gave her the cold shoulder. They wouldn’t talk to her at all.

Cold, hard cash; cash, not checks or promises (informal)
I want to be paid cold, hard cash, and I want to be paid now.
Pay me now. Cash on the barrelhead – cold, hard cash

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