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Cold fish   /koʊld fɪʃ/   Listen
Cold fish

noun
1.
An aloof unemotional person.





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"Cold fish" Quotes from Famous Books



... me to his own chamber, where I had never been before, and showed me how, in the chimney-neuk, was a way into a certain black hole of little ease, wherein, if any came in search for me, I might lie hidden. And, fetching me a cold fish (Lenten cheer), a loaf, and a stoup of wine, whereof I was glad enough, he left me, groaning the while at his ill-fortune, but laden with such thanks as I might give ...
— A Monk of Fife • Andrew Lang
... went negligently to the great Flemish press. He opened the face and revealed on its dark shelves a patty of cold fish and a black jack. With heavy movements and a solemn face he moved these things, with a knife and napkins, on ...
— The Fifth Queen • Ford Madox Ford
... Warren had tracked them hater, and releasing the half smothered and unconscious children, they laid them down on a pile of rags, and sat looking at them, while they ate their evening portion of black bread and cold fish. ...
— The Boy Scouts in Front of Warsaw • Colonel George Durston


Words linked to "Cold fish" :   unpleasant person, disagreeable person


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