meaning of cold war
The easing of tensions between the west and USSR.
There was no military action during the Cold War. As opposed to a 'hot war', meaning a shooting war, the conflict between the West and the Soviet Bloc was restricted to a war of economics, sanctions, boycotts, and similar political struggles.
The term "hot war" should, and was intended to be used, only in conjunction with the term "cold war." Meaning that a "cold war" is a non-shooting war; and a "hot war" is a shooting war. Extra examples: 1. People die in "hot wars." 2. People do not die in "cold wars." (accidents don't count).
No, stalemate is a chess term, meaning an end with no winner. As long as the Cold War lasted and both sides were still able to one-up each other, it was not a stalemate.
It was involve by contributing to the cold war
You seem to be asking about a distorted version of the idiom "on cloud nine" meaning, extremely happy (cloud nine being a cloud in heaven, or something like that).
meaning a person without no mercy to others and a person that mercy to others.
The term "hot war" was only used in conjuction with the term "cold war." Cold war meaning no war; hot war meaning a war.
"To be" is not an idiom - it's a verb.
It's not an idiom because it means just what it looks like - someone is very cold. In this context, you would think of the alternate meaning of cold, which is unemotional or unapproachable. When you see "as ___ as ___" or "___er than ___" you are dealing with a simile.
Pest is not an idiom. It's a word.
This is not an idiom. When you see AS ___ AS ___ you are dealing with A Simile. They are comparing the temperature to a witch's supposedly cold body.
The idiom "apple shiner" means the teacher's pet.
The meaning of the idiom in the pink of health means being in good health.
Negative! The Cold War was NOT a war; the cold war involved NO killing nor destruction. The cold war was just a name...meaning "a military stand-off." A Holy War is a war with religion as basis for the war.
"Catching a cold" is an idiom - it means to come down with the symptoms of the cold virus.
The meaning of Cold in Cold War is simply that they call it the cold war because there was no fighting between the U.S's military and the Soviet millitary. Sometimes people will ask, "what if the cold war had turned hot?" that simply means "What would have happend if the U.S. and the U.S.S.R had actually fought each other?'