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cold shoulder

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ˌcold ˈshoulder noun  (give somebody/get) the cold shoulder to behave in an unfriendly way towards someone that you know 慢待(某人),冷落(某人);(受到)冷遇cold shoulder verb [transitive]
Examples from the Corpus
cold shoulderThen from then on, we were treated with an absolute cold shoulder, and no one would speak to us.Rachaela had turned on Ruth, not just the habitual cold shoulder, but with a firework of dislike and alienation.So they have given girlfriends the cold shoulder.She was sure that at some point she'd given some one the cold shoulder and hurt them badly without noticing.A declaration of love, or the cold shoulder.Banishment was better than this cold shoulder.
ˌcold ˈshoulder nounChineseSyllable
towards way someone Corpus behave an unfriendly in to


cold shoulder
ˌcold ˈshoulder noun
(give somebody/get) the cold shoulder to behave in an unfriendly way towards someone that you know
—cold shoulder verb [transitive]