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Cold turkey   /koʊld tˈərki/   Listen
Cold turkey

noun
1.
A blunt expression of views.
2.
Complete and abrupt withdrawal of all addictive drugs or anything else on which you have become dependent.  "She quit her job cold turkey"





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"Cold turkey" Quotes from Famous Books



... "he sent me a box Thanks-giving, There was a cold turkey and caramels and guava jelly and ginger-snaps, and walnut meats and seedless raisins, and, and as Mr. Tompkins says, it doesn't do to be ...
— The Penalty • Gouverneur Morris
... if here isn't a cold turkey and a pan of pudding,' rejoined Pete, whose researches had also been crowned ...
— City Crimes - or Life in New York and Boston • Greenhorn
... I shan't be able t' eat any o' the rest when I'm through with the turk'!" sighed Spike, a little reproachfully. "My, but I'm hungry! Strange how hungry cold turkey makes ...
— The Definite Object - A Romance of New York • Jeffery Farnol
... did eat my breakfast upon a cold turkey pie and a goose, and I did send for a cup of tee (a china drink) of which ...
— Daddy-Long-Legs • Jean Webster
... turkey hunters were eating their breakfast of cold turkey a doe, followed by a fawn which was still in the spotted coat, walked out on the open prairie within fifty yards of them and gazed at them ...
— Dick in the Everglades • A. W. Dimock


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