cold-cock

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Examples

• This is comedy based on a cold humor, detached, euphemistic, devoid of any generosity.

• We indulge in expensive cold-pressed juices and SoulCycle classes, justifying these purchases as investments in our health.

• Cold War fears could be manipulated through misleading art to attract readers to daunting material.

• The vaccine is delivered through a “carrier virus” that causes a common cold in chimpanzees but does not affect humans.

• Accusing his opponents of being locked in a Cold War mind-set, it is Stone who is beholden to old orthodoxies.

• Madame de Condillac stood watching him, her face composed, her glance cold.

• The well-known "cock and bull" stories of small children are inspired by this love of strong effect.

• Being quieted by the Captain with a draught of cold tea, and made to sit down, the examination of the book proceeded.

• When alone she sometimes picked it up and kissed the cold glass passionately.

• Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!