cold turkey
Example Sentences
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“It was terrifying. You can’t just go cold turkey on these things,” he said.
While it won’t kill you like some other vices, trying to quit this spiritually corrosive habit cold turkey is inadvisable.
From Salon
Starting with a super cold turkey will result in a longer roasting time.
From Salon
"We went cold turkey really, but we managed it. We've just got used to living without Russian pipeline gas," explains Dr Jack Sharples, senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.
From BBC
If you’re trying to scale back on social media, maybe limit yourself to 15 minutes a day, instead of going cold turkey.
From Seattle Times
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