Английский словарь американских идиом - cold turkey
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Cold turkey
cold turkey
{adv.}, {slang}, {informal} 1. Abruptly and without medical aid to withdraw from the use of an addictive drug or from a serious drinking problem. * /Joe is a very brave guy; he kicked the habit cold turkey./ 2. {n.} An instance of withdrawal from drugs, alcohol, or cigarette smoking. * /Joe did a cold turkey./
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1.
~ n go cold turkey to suddenly stop taking a drug you are addicted to and to experience a sort of illness because of it (Marcia went cold turkey off heroin.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
2.
Cold turkey is the unpleasant physical reaction that people experience when they suddenly stop taking a drug that they have become addicted to. (INFORMAL) The quickest way to get her off the drug was to let her go cold turkey. N-UNCOUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Date: 1921 1. abrupt complete cessation of the use of an addictive drug; also the symptoms experienced by a person undergoing withdrawal from a drug 2. unrelieved blunt language or procedure 3. a cold aloof person • cold-turkey transitive verb II. adverb Date: 1941 all at once ; abruptly: as a. without a period of gradual adjustment, adaptation, or withdrawal quit smoking ~ b. without preparation a new player who started the season ~ ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
4.
1. голая правда; истина без прикрас 2. резкое прекращение употребления наркотиков (добровольное или принудительное) 3. разг. бесчувственный, холодный человек; рыба бесчувственная ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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