cold blood

cold blood

slang Beer. Let's meet up at the bar tonight for some cold blood.
See also: blood, cold
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cold blood

and cold coffee
n. beer. How would you like a little cold blood to start things off?
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

cold blood, in

Calculatedly ruthless. This expression comes from the days when it was commonly believed that blood rules the temper and was boiling hot when one was excited and ice-cold when one was calm. The French call it sang-froid, a term taken over in English with the same meaning. Thus Byron wrote of Don Juan, “Cross-legg’d with great sang-froid among the scorching ruins he sat smoking.” In more recent times Truman Capote used the term as the title of a detailed account (1965) of a deliberate act of murder.
See also: cold
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • cold blood, in
  • after (one's) blood
  • after your blood
  • be after (one's) blood
  • be after/out for somebody's blood
  • in the blood
  • in the/somebody's blood/genes
  • be in (one's) blood
  • bleed out
  • in one’s blood
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Truman Capote and the Legacy of In Cold Blood. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2011.246 pp.
Voss, Ralph F. Truman Capote and the Legacy of In Cold Blood
The suspect then allegedly murdered the victim in cold blood before fleeing his labour accommodation and travelling to Umm Al Quwain.
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A TEENAGER who "enjoyed" killing a 63-year-old widower in cold blood has failed to have his minimum jail term cut.
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After murdering a loyal servant of the State in cold blood they held his colleague hostage and robbed the credit union.
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Truman Capote and the Legacy of In Cold Blood reviews the origins of Capote's classic book and its lasting impact on American culture and society, and is a fine analysis for any college-level holding.
Truman Capote and the Legacy of In Cold Blood
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