Advertisement
Advertisement
cold shower
Idioms and Phrases
A surprisingly chilly reception, reaction, or response, as in The small voter turnout was a cold shower to the League of Women Voters . The allusion in this term is to the unexpected and not always pleasant effect of an ice-cold shower. [Second half of 1900s]Example Sentences
Fabian Schmidt, a third German and green card holder, was stopped at Boston Logan International Airport and reportedly subjected to harsh interrogation tactics and shoved into a cold shower, naked.
The words of Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, earlier today will have come as an ice cold shower to many in Ukraine, dashing a lot of their hopes for a secure future, free from the menace of further Russian invasions.
"He was very firm. It was a cold shower," one source shared.
Ben Wood, chief analyst at CCS Insight, says generative AI will have a "cold shower" in 2024.
If Washington can scratch out a win in Dallas on Thursday, that would help change the narrative and provide breathing room to get to the finish line, but that seems like a tall task given what happened on Sunday, which was a cold shower of reality for everybody involved.
Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse