OK so it's been a while since the last post... Yes, I know, spring is the best time to start new things or to do some spring cleaning to give old things a new lease on life... But who cares?! I have decided to start blogging again on this very cold January afternoon.
Now, the choice is yours: wrap up warm and dare to go for a winter walk - or stay indoors with a nice cuppa and chill out while learning some new idioms with the word COLD in them :
break out in a cold sweat
Lit. or Fig. to become frightened or anxious and begin to sweat. I was so frightened, I broke out in a cold sweat. Larry broke out in a cold sweat when he cut his hand.
give someone the cold shoulder
To
deliberately ignore or
snub someone.
in the cold light of day
if you think about something in the cold light of day, you think about it clearly and calmly, without the emotions you had at the time it happened, and you often feel sorry or ashamed about it The next morning, in the cold light of day,Sarah realized what a complete idiot she had been.
(make) your blood run cold
to be very frightened The thought of the damage such a bomb could do made my blood run cold.
leave somebody out in the cold
to not allow someone to become part of a group or an activity The government's transport policy
leaves people who do not own cars out in the cold. Women's football teams feel they are left out in the cold as far as media coverage is concerned.
get cold feet
to suddenly become too frightened to do something you had planned to do, especially something important like getting married We're getting married next Saturday - that's if Trevor doesn't get cold feet! I'm worried she may begetting cold feet about our trip to Patagonia.
cold water
n. Informal
Discouragement or disapproval: I hadn't told her it was a costume party ... because she might have tossed cold water on the plan" (Caroline Preston).
cold turkey
Slang
n.
Immediate, complete withdrawal from something on which one has become dependent, such as an addictive drug.
adv.
1. Immediately and without gradual reduction of use: quit smoking cold turkey.
2. Frankly or directly; without mincing words: spoke to her staff cold turkey about the likelihood of
layoffs.
definitions taken from : http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/
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