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
The best thing to do about racism, he posits, is to just give it up, cold turkey, by announcing that we’re all good now.
From Slate • Jun. 29, 2023
No one said Gragson had to go cold turkey on a hot burger all season.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2023
Not bit by bit like in the hospital in 13, but cold turkey.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
