cold fish
Example Sentences
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If being a cold fish is, as the cliché would have it, a British quality, then the series is very British indeed.
From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2022
Detractors called him “Slippery Slade” and “living proof that not all cold fish comes in a can.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2020
The hiyayakko, or chilled tofu, had all the personality of cold fish, while the ohitashi salad was little more than spinach drowning in dashi and bonito flakes that had lost their shimmy.
From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2018
But compared to Wanda, it’s a cold fish.
From The Guardian • May 1, 2017
Clara, unshakable, led Blanca to a chair and served her a plate of cold fish with caper sauce.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
