get someone the cold shoulder
Meaning: To ignore someone intentionally.
Language: English
Literally: (Already vivid in English)
Category: Body & Senses
Origin: Whereas give someone the cold shoulder is used only with people, turn up one's nose can be applied to both people and things.
More idioms — Body & Senses
- get someone a hand — To help someone.
- give one's right arm to do something — To want something very much.
- give someone the shirt off one's back — To give (figuratively) someone all one's possessions; to be very generous.
- gray matter — Brain tissue and, by extension, intelligence.
- green around the gills — Sick to one's stomach; nauseated.
- green thumb — Natural ability to grow plants.
More English idioms
- hand in glove — Close or intimate.
- hand over fist — Extremely quickly.
- hand to mouth — To live in poor conditions from day to day; to be impoverished.
- head and shoulders above — At a much higher level.
- have one's head in the clouds — To be impractical or absent-minded; to be unaware of what is going on around one.
- head over heels in love — Very much in love; uncontrollably in love.
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