cold turkey
Example Sentences
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“It was terrifying. You can’t just go cold turkey on these things,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
While it won’t kill you like some other vices, trying to quit this spiritually corrosive habit cold turkey is inadvisable.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025
You might not need to go cold turkey on your credit card spending.
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2023
But I also told people that I had just gone off my meds cold turkey, which is how I learned that the exact same thing had happened to a lot of them too.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2023
The truth was, I could no sooner quit cello cold turkey than I could stop breathing.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
