- cold shoulder
- noun
Date: 1816
intentionally cold or unsympathetic treatment <got the cold shoulder from an old friend> • cold-shoulder transitive verb
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
cold shoulder
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cold shoulder — If you give or show someone the cold shoulder, you are deliberately unfriendly and unco operative towards them … The small dictionary of idiomes
cold shoulder — n. Informal deliberate indifference or coldness; a slight, rebuff, or snub: often used with the cold shoulder vt … English World dictionary
cold shoulder — index rebuff Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
