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leave one cold
Idioms and Phrases
Disappoint one, fail to interest one. For example, This book leaves me cold . This expression, first recorded in 1853, employs cold in the sense of “unenthusiastic†or “indifferent,†a usage dating from the late 1100s.Example Sentences
They leave one cold despite their erotic vehemence; the abuse of the vocative is not persuasive, their raptures are largely rhetorical.
Leave one cold; warm the other over the burner, but do not heat it to boiling.
Like his learning, which may astonish the simple, but which hardly illuminates the student, his virtues leave one cold.
No really good instruction, any more than good story books, will leave one cold toward the theme in hand.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from 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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