leave one cold

Idioms and Phrases

Disappoint one, fail to interest one. For example, This book leaves me cold . This expression, first recorded in 1853, employs cold in the sense of “unenthusiastic” or “indifferent,” a usage dating from the late 1100s.

Example Sentences

They leave one cold despite their erotic vehemence; the abuse of the vocative is not persuasive, their raptures are largely rhetorical.

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Leave one cold; warm the other over the burner, but do not heat it to boiling.

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Like his learning, which may astonish the simple, but which hardly illuminates the student, his virtues leave one cold.

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No really good instruction, any more than good story books, will leave one cold toward the theme in hand.

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Related Words

• annoy
• bore
• depress
• dishearten
• exasperate
• exhaust
• fade
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