cold fish

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noun unemotional person

adjective. remote

This is a piquante relish for lobsters, crabs, cold fish, &c.

To possess these qualities opens one to the suspicion of being a cold fish.

She offered us cold fish, fried in oil, from her frying pan.

This butter is excellent to decorate and to eat with cold fish.

Cold fish, cold cutlets, dishevelled chicken, half-eaten sweets.

Take equal parts of cold fish (free from skin and bone) boiled rice and some hard boiled eggs.

(Possum appears from around the corner of the house with both hands full of cold fish).

Take any sort of cold fish, bone it, and then chop it with the remains of a cold omelet, and some mushrooms if you have them.

It was cold fish and sea-sodden hardtack till they saw land again—if they ever did.

I remember one lyric tenor who was my bugbear because he had hands like a fresh, cold fish.