| 单词 | cold fish |
| 释义 | cold fishSEE SYNONYMS FOR cold fish ON THESAURUS.COM noun Informal.a person who is very reserved or aloof in manner or who lacks normal cordiality, sympathy, or other feeling. Origin of cold fishFirst recorded in 1940–45 Words nearby cold fishcold drink, cold duck, Colden, cold feet, cold feet, get, cold fish, cold frame, cold front, cold fusion, Cold hands, warm heart, Cold Harbor Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for cold fish
British Dictionary definitions for cold fishcold fish nounan unemotional and unfriendly person Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with cold fishcold fish A hard-hearted, unfeeling individual, one who shows no emotion, as in Not even the eulogy moved him; he's a real cold fish. This expression was used by Shakespeare in The Winter's Tale (4:4): “It was thought she was a woman, and was turn'd into a cold fish.” However, it came into wider use only in the first half of the 1900s. The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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