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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
The first words out of his mouth were simply “I just need a cold shower.”
The feeling quickly dissipated when—shortly after—he found himself naked in a cold shower, surrounded by the two adult men.
The presence of Jowar revived her like a cold shower, and she stood on her own feet with her chin in the air.
I splash in brief swift soapsuds, and go under a sudden heroic icy cold shower, and dry me with a scourging towel.
Mr Gordon recommends the tincture of Lobelia inflata, with the use of the cold shower-bath.
He gasped, his body making the same thermal changes as if he stood under a cold shower.
He first took his customary cold shower-bath, and then quickly threw on his clothes.
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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.
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