Idiom
cold treatment
Meaning
Cold shoulder.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He gives me the cold treatment whenever I arrive late.”
“After their argument, she gave him the cold treatment and refused to answer his messages for several days.”
“Despite his attempts to reconcile, she maintained the cold treatment, offering only icy silence in response to his repeated apologies.”
Examples
simple
“He gives me the cold treatment whenever I arrive late.”
contextual
“After their argument, she gave him the cold treatment and refused to answer his messages for several days.”
complex
“Despite his attempts to reconcile, she maintained the cold treatment, offering only icy silence in response to his repeated apologies.”
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