
Student or Learner
Hello, I've been looking for an idiom for when someone becomes cold in general, closes up his heart, becomes insensitive.
Additionaly is there one involving a tree bark, or a rock?
It's better if I can avoid the word heart.
Thanks a lot
Sev
Remember - if you don't use correct capitalisation, punctuation and spacing, anything you write will be incorrect.
Tom Waits, who has been known to bill himself as a poet, has a wonderful idiom in one of his songs. He describes a cold person who just doesn't care what others say or think as "independent as a hog on ice." It makes me smile every time I hear it.
Use gender-neutral language. The singular they and their sometimes work, but whenever reasonably possible, use singluar nouns with singular verbs and plural nouns with plural verbs.
There are expressions for cold-heartedness, but I can't think of an expression for becoming cold-hearted.
By the way, look up idiom and expression to see the difference.
I'm not a teacher. I speak American English. I've tutored writing at the University of Southern Maine and have done a good deal of copy editing and writing, occasionally for publication.