| Dictionary: cold fish |
| Idioms: cold fish |
A hard-hearted, unfeeling individual, one who shows no emotion, as in Not even the eulogy moved him; he's a real cold fish. This expression was used by Shakespeare in The Winter's Tale (4:4): "It was thought she was a woman, and was turn'd into a cold fish." However, it came into wider use only in the first half of the 1900s.
| WordNet: cold fish |
The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
an aloof unemotional person
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