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frozen mitt
noun- a rejection; a brush off UK, 1915
A variant of “cold shoulder”. - You can have the usual break-down–but don’t get off your bike, If she hands you out the frozen mitt and says she’d rather hike. You can plead and say its springtime, when even lizards mate, But you can’t get any further if she won’t co-operate. — K. Grant, It’s ’ard to go wrong in the suburbs, p. 19, 1940
- She’d give a bloke the frozen mit if he tried a bear-up. — Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, p. 52, 1947
- an intentionally unwelcoming reception UK, 1903
With “icy mitt” as a variant.
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