ice maiden

ice maiden

pejorative A coolly composed, unemotional woman; a woman without affection or warmth of feeling. I don't know how Janet can go out with an ice maiden like Mary. Many see the prime minister as some kind of ice maiden, but I think she's just being as tough as she needs to be.
See also: ice, maiden
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • maiden
  • ice queen
  • woman of means
  • fussock
  • a woman of few words
  • woman of many parts
  • a woman for all seasons
  • business girl
  • a woman of her word
References in periodicals archive
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London, Feb 1 ( ANI ): Angelina Jolie, who has a reputation of being the ice maiden of Hollywood, has revealed that her directorial debut made her cry in her partner, Brad Pitt's arms.
Tragic love story made me cry in Brad's arms, says Angelina Jolie
Image Fearsome hotel ice maiden Best Known For Fronting The Hotel Inspector Early Life Alessandra Maria-Luigia O Polizzi Di Sorrentino was born in 1971.
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PRUE, Sally Ice Maiden OUP, 2011 195pp AS 11.95 NZ$14.99 pbk ISBN 9780192729651 SCIS 1503027
Prue, Sally: Ice Maiden
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Outcasts setting is out of this world
Colin Firth returns to familiar territory in period rom-com EASY VIRTUE starring Hollywood cutie Jessica Biel, Prince Caspian heart-throb Ben Barnes and the ultimate big screen ice maiden Kirstin Scott Thomas - look out for it from November 7.
COMING SOON
In this trio of brief ballets a lover is doomed to spend his life in thrall to an evil ice maiden, and a brave puppet's humanity is sadly snatched away.
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Just peachy: orange you glad it's spring?
According to our sources, Cath is top of the list to play a fiercely controlling ice maiden in The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger's send-up of fashion journalism.
Sunday Roast
I don't want to think of you there, your smooth unfurrowed brow darkening like the Ice Maiden, 450 B.C.
Thinking the Unthinkable
"Thumbelina is in the forest, with fairies falling out of trees; the Ice Maiden floats across mountains; and courtiers glide on the floor in 'The Emperor and the Nightingale,'" she says.
Between Terror and Desire
"The Ice Maiden," she was predictably called, that and sometimes "Maureen Dowd." She might actually be early evidence of the lost art of freeze-drying, a process rediscovered in this century by the Taster's Choice people.
The mummy track