cold shoulder

cold shoulder
*the cold shoulder
Fig. an attitude of rejection. (*Typically: get \cold shoulder; give someone \cold shoulder.) •

If you greet her at a party, you'll just get the cold shoulder.

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I thought that Sally and I were friends, but lately I've been getting the cold shoulder.

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{n.}, {informal} Unfriendly treatment of a person, a showing of dislike for a person or of looking down on a person. - Used in the cliches "give the cold shoulder" or "turn a cold shoulder to" or "get the cold shoulder". * /When Bob asked Mary for a date she gave him the cold shoulder./ * /The membership committee turned a cold shoulder to Jim's request to join the club./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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