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Cold fish

noun

An aloof unemotional person.

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"Cold fish" Quotes from Famous Books

... Warren had tracked them hater, and releasing the half smothered and unconscious children, they laid them down on a pile of rags, and sat looking at them, while they ate their evening portion of black bread and cold fish. ...

— The Boy Scouts in Front of Warsaw • Colonel George Durston

... shook. I mean shook. It wasn't like handing you so much cold fish—the way some women shake hands. And Loys and me, we ...

— Red Saunders • Henry Wallace Phillips

... went negligently to the great Flemish press. He opened the face and revealed on its dark shelves a patty of cold fish and a black jack. With heavy movements and a solemn face he moved these things, with a knife and napkins, on ...

— The Fifth Queen • Ford Madox Ford

... and quinze?" enquired the Marchesa, lazily picking out the most delicate morsels from the cold fish on ...

— The Children of the King • F. Marion Crawford

... cold fish, take away all skin and bones, mixing the flesh with salt, butter, pepper, and one or two raw eggs as you wish. Take some small fireproof cases and place in each some lemon-juice with a little melted butter and grated breadcrumbs. Bake the ...

— The Belgian Cookbook • various various