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in cold blood |
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in cold blood Fig. without feeling; with cruel intent. (Frequently said of a crime, especially murder.) The killer walked up and shot the woman in cold blood. How insulting! For a person to say something like that in cold blood is just horrible. in cold blood if you do something, especially kill someone, in cold blood, you do it in a way which is cruel because you plan it and do it without emotion Four men were charged with the killing, in cold blood, of a French tourist last summer. An unarmed boy was shot in cold blood outside his home yesterday. in cold blood intentionally and without emotion The jury must now decide if the two men are guilty of killing their parents in cold blood. Usage notes: most often used with the verbs kill, murder, and shoot Etymology: based the figurative meanings of cold ( lacking in feeling) and blood ( emotion) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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For these reasons, the trade of a soldier is held the most honourable of all others; because a soldier is a YAHOO hired to kill, in cold blood, as many of his own species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can. But the things which one says naturally enough when the emotions provoke them sound crude enough in cold blood and colder daylight. Granted that my fancy for Hetty was only a cloud of illusions, still I could not, within a few days of her sudden death, go in cold blood to take part in a grotesque and heathenish mummery over her coffin. |
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