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cold shoulder
cold shoul·der


noun 
Definition:
 
unfriendliness: a refusal to behave in a friendly or pleasant way toward somebody
He gave me the cold shoulder.
[Because unwelcome guests were formerly given only a cold shoulder of mutton]

cold·shoul·der [ kld shṓldər ] transitive verb
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