cold blood
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cold blood
slang Beer. Let's meet up at the bar tonight for some cold blood. No more cold blood for you, all right? The last thing I want is to be stuck on the train for an hour with you while you're drunk. After a crazy work week, it's nice to kick back with some cold blood on a Friday night.
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cold blood
and cold coffee n. beer. How would you like a little cold blood to start things off?
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cold blood, in
Calculatedly ruthless. This expression comes from the days when it was commonly believed that blood rules the temper and was boiling hot when one was excited and ice-cold when one was calm. The French call it sang-froid, a term taken over in English with the same meaning. Thus Byron wrote of Don Juan, “Cross-legg’d with great sang-froid among the scorching ruins he sat smoking.” In more recent times Truman Capote used the term as the title of a detailed account (1965) of a deliberate act of murder.
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