VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

In cold blood

Meaning:

The phrase to do something in cold blood is an idiomatic expression that means to do something without feeling or with cruel intent.

Examples:

  • Life in cold blood has been a great success.
  • That is the legal definition of "in cold blood."
  • And that he executed that plan in cold blood.
  • Are you sure you'd be able to use it in cold blood?
  • To take a life in cold blood is not an easy thing.
  • Unless, of course, you did it in cold blood.
  • Executing one of your men in cold blood?
  • Why would she ice one of us in cold blood?
  • I'd prefer to have her think it was in cold blood.
  • I would never have the courage to do that, not in cold blood.