cold turkey= the unpleasant state that drug addicts experience when they suddenly stop taking a drug, or a way of treating addicts that makes them experience this state
eg. The worst time was when he was going cold turkey.
Hi Madox Thanks for the new idiom I just want to know something Do we use this idiom only in this context that is ( drug addict)?
Thank you
I.A
Hi Veron,
I do not know other meaning of COLD TURKEY. There might be other meanings, too. Why do you ask? Have you heard about other meaning than than one I gave?
I do not know other meaning of COLD TURKEY. There might be other meanings, too. Why do you ask? Have you heard about other meaning than than one I gave?
Madox
Hi Not at all As I have said it is a new idiom to me I googled it now and I found that the only context is what you have suggested.
I do not know other meaning of COLD TURKEY. There might be other meanings, too. Why do you ask? Have you heard about other meaning than than one I gave?
Madox
Cold turkey
the unpleasant state that drug ADDICTS experience when they suddenly stop taking a drug; a way of treating drug ADDICTS that makes them experience this state
cold turkey adverb: I quit smoking cold turkey. [Oxford Dic.]
Cold turkey the unpleasant state that drug ADDICTS experience when they suddenly stop taking a drug; a way of treating drug ADDICTS that makes them experience this state cold turkey adverb: I quit smoking cold turkey. [Oxford Dic.]
be bitten by the bug= have a sudden strong interest in or enthusiasm for something
eg.
My father was never really interested in going abroad until she went to America last year. Now he's been bitten by the bug and hates staying at home.