| 单词 | in cold blood |
| 释义 | in cold blood (once / 4175 pages) adv Something done in cold blood is done without emotion. Murderers are often described as acting in cold blood. Love and hate are both described in terms of heat, and a lack of emotion is considered cold. So if something is done in cold blood, it is done with no emotion whatsoever. Often, this phrase is used for actions that are somewhat inhuman. There are many descriptions such as "He gunned down the innocents in cold blood." This idiom is so popular that writer Truman Capote entitled his famous crime novel about an unexplained murder of a rural Kansas family, In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. WORD FAMILYin cold blood USAGE EXAMPLES“In Cold Blood,” his sensational nonfiction novel about a murdered Kansas family, made him the best-known writer in America. Washington Post(Nov 27, 2016) Such learning recalls Perry Smith from "In Cold Blood," who loved to collect words, including "thanatoid," "resembling death, mortal; deadly." New York Times(Oct 24, 2016) In a television interview shortly after their deaths in July, the 26-year-old mother accused two officers of killing them in cold blood. Seattle Times(Nov 12, 2016) adv in a cold unemotional manner he killed her in cold blood Syn coldly |
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