cold fish
Example Sentences
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The buffet table included pickled salads, pâté, cold fish wraps and twarog — something like a white farmer cheese — most of which we also piled on our plates.
From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2021
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
“Fine, but what should I do with Ess?” asked Jinny, swallowing a mouthful of cold fish.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
