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cold
noun
▶ out in the cold
stranded, neglected, imperilled UK
A phrase popularised by John LeCarre’s The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.- JULES: But what I can say ass is out in the cold and I’m askin you for some santuary ‘till our people can brings us in. — Pulp Fiction, 1994
▶ too slow to catch a cold
applied to someone or something that moves slowly, or
someone whose thought processes are sluggish UK, 1917- “Hurry up, Pigman!” shouted the sows. “Stir your stumps, you lazy thing!” “He’s too slow to catch a cold!” — Dick King-Smith, Pigs Might Fly, p. 5, 1990
- The car was noisy, too slow to catch a cold and had antiquated road-holding properties. — Laurence Meredith, Original VW Beetle, p. 126, 1999
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