cold-fish
Example Sentences
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Detractors called him “Slippery Slade” and “living proof that not all cold fish comes in a can.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2020
This is charming but also compatible with Tesla’s portrait of Edison as a cold fish.
From Slate • Aug. 21, 2020
Kennedy told Ginsberg that day that he was quite the opposite – hard-hearted, or cold-hearted, or a cold fish – “Some phrase like that,” Ginsberg said.
From The Guardian • May 27, 2018
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
