| 词汇 | in cold blood |
| 释义 | Idiom in cold blood Theme: CRUELTY without feeling; with cruel intent. (Informal or slang. Frequently said of a crime, especially murder.)The killer walked up and shot the woman in cold blood.How insulting! For a person to say something like that in cold blood is just horrible. Slang in cold blood Theme: MEAN mod. without feeling; with cruel intent.Rocko kills in cold blood and never gives it a thought.The prof flunked me in cold blood. Idiom in cold blood if you do something, especially kill someone, in cold blood, you do it in a way which is cruel because you plan it and do it without emotion.Four men were charged with the killing, in cold blood, of a French tourist last summer.An unarmed boy was shot in cold blood outside his home yesterday. in cold bloodRuthlessly and without feeling any remorse. Typically said of a murder that is committed in a calm and deliberate manner. This was no crime of passion—he killed them in cold blood, as they slept! in cold bloodFig. without feeling; with cruel intent. (Frequently said of a crime, especially murder.) The killer walked up and shot the woman in cold blood. How insulting! For a person to say something like that in cold blood is just horrible. in cold bloodIn a purposely ruthless and unfeeling manner, as in The whole family was murdered in cold blood. This expression alludes to the notion that blood is the seat of emotion and is hot in passion and cold in calm. The term therefore means not "in the heat of passion," but "in a calculated, deliberate manner." [Late 1500s] in cold bloodCOMMON If a person kills someone in cold blood, they kill them in a calm and deliberate way, rather than in anger or self-defence. They murdered my brother. They shot him down in cold blood. She was executed in cold blood while her boyfriend looked on helplessly. Note: You can describe a killing or a killer as cold-blooded. This is just another attempt to excuse the cold-blooded murder of an innocent woman. It was clear to Blackburn that she was a cold-blooded killer. Note: People use these expressions to express shock or horror at a killing. Note: In medieval times, some people believed that certain emotions changed the temperature of the blood. in cold bloodwithout feeling or mercy; ruthlessly.According to medieval physiology blood was naturally hot, and so this phrase refers to an unnatural state in which someone can carry out a (hot-blooded) deed of passion or violence without the normal heating of the blood. Compare with make your blood curdle and make your blood run cold (at blood). in cold ˈblooddeliberately and calmly, without showing any pity: The innocent victims were shot in cold blood. OPPOSITE: in the heat of the moment ▶ ˌcold-ˈblooded adj.: a cold-blooded murderin cold blood mod. without feeling; with cruel intent. Rocko kills in cold blood and never gives it a thought. in cold blood Deliberately, coldly, and dispassionately. cold blood, inCalculatedly ruthless. This expression comes from the days when it was commonly believed that blood rules the temper and was boiling hot when one was excited and ice-cold when one was calm. The French call it sang-froid, a term taken over in English with the same meaning. Thus Byron wrote of Don Juan, “Cross-legg’d with great sang-froid among the scorching ruins he sat smoking.” In more recent times Truman Capote used the term as the title of a detailed account (1965) of a deliberate act of murder. |
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