freeze

give (one) the freeze

To intentionally ignore, appear disinterested in, or act indifferent toward one; to snub one. She thinks you started that rumor about her—that's why she's been giving you the freeze all day. Everyone gave me the freeze from the moment I stepped foot inside the room.
See also: freeze, give
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

freeze

1. n. the act of ignoring someone; the cold shoulder. Everybody seems to be giving me the freeze.
2. tv. to ignore someone; to give someone the cold shoulder. Don’t freeze me, gang! I use a mouth wash!
3. in. to hold perfectly still. (Also a command given by a police officer that implies there is a gun pointed at a suspect.) The fuzz shouted, “Freeze, or you’re dead meat!”
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • a freeze on (something)
  • be the day hell freezes over
  • cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
  • freeze
  • freeze (on)to (something)
  • freeze (one's) tail off
  • freeze (one's) wages
  • freeze (someone or something) in (someone's) memory
  • freeze (someone's) blood
  • freeze (something) into (something)
  • freeze blood
  • freeze in memory
  • freeze into
  • freeze on
  • freeze out
  • freeze over
  • freeze someone out
  • freeze tail off
  • freeze to
  • freeze to death
  • freeze up
  • freeze wages
  • freeze your blood
  • freezing cold
  • get the freeze
  • give (one) the freeze
  • make one's blood run cold
  • make your blood run cold
  • once hell freezes over
  • play freeze out
  • play freeze-out
  • put the chill on
  • put the chill on someone
  • put the freeze on (someone or something)
  • put the freeze on someone
  • till hell freezes over
  • until hell freezes over
  • when hell freezes over
  • when hell freezes over and the devil learns to (ice) skate
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You will have to contact each credit reporting agency to lift the credit freeze, which can be time-consuming and a hassle.
The Pros And Cons Of Freezing Your Credit
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You can wrap the zest up in plastic wrap and freeze the juice in ice cube trays.
A Complete Guide to Freezing Groceries
Alternatively, pack the herbs into butter and freeze that in cubes, or add them to flavour olive oil or wine vinegar.
How to save the fruits of your labour; Gardening
The retail industry and credit bureaus, however, contend that freezes would mean more hassles for consumers.
States consider "security freeze" laws
NF vegetables have been partially dehydrated to such a level that the products, when cooled to -20[degrees]C, do not freeze and have a water activity below 0.9.
Emerging technologies for frozen foods
Freezing stress response in woody tissues observed using low temperature scanning electron microscopy and freeze substitution techniques.
Visualization of freezing progression in turfgrasses using infrared video thermography. (Notes)
There are two types of freeze dryers: industrial and laboratory.
Market Profile: Freeze Dryers
While the New York City's proposed two-year water and sewer rate freeze is being welcomed by the real estate industry, most owner reps and other officials called it merely a first - step" and urged further measures to relieve drained owners.
Water rate freeze leaves many thirsty
The abrupt change in temperature and the cold's severity combined to create a double-whammy, now known as the Halloween Freeze. Already stressed from an extended drought and not yet hardened for winter, thousands and thousands of trees succumbed to the hard freeze.
A Halloween tree killer
Why do owners of family businesses undertake estate freeze transactions?
Estate freeze transfers of a family business or farm
Traditionally, it can take hours to freeze a mixture of milk, sugar, and other ingredients into ice cream that's ready to eat.
Speedy scoop
"With our technology, you can freeze and send food--good food like Otaru sushi--all over the world."
Frozen fish that tastes fresh--really! High-tech sushi from Hokkaido hits supermarket shelves worldwide
of New York City, using ice and salt, was the first company to freeze poultry in the U.S.
Early frozen food history facts
One phenomenon, called frost heave, is the expansion that occurs when wet, fine-grained soils freeze. If rocks are scattered throughout such soils, repeated episodes of freezing and thawing brings the stones to the surface because damp soil particles gradually flow around and settle under the stones.
Patterns from nowhere: natural forces bring order to untouched ground