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Cold shoulder vs. cold hand #1 (permalink) Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:46 am   Cold shoulder vs. cold hand
 

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ESL/EFL Test #18 "Hot and Cold", question 5

Since the argument we've had about the garden hedge, our neighbours take no notice of us and give us the cold ......... when they see us.

(a) ankle
(b) shoulder
(c) elbow
(d) hand

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ESL/EFL Test #18 "Hot and Cold", answer 5

Since the argument we've had about the garden hedge, our neighbours take no notice of us and give us the cold shoulder when they see us.

Correct answer: (b) shoulder

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Since the argument we've had about the garden hedge, our neighbours take no notice of us and give us the cold hand when they see us.
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Why have to be cold sholder can you explain me some how?

And if It 's impossible to write all about body idiom to the other I 'll be so pleased and taken by surprize .......

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Cold shoulder vs. cold hand #2 (permalink) Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:47 am   Cold shoulder vs. cold hand
 

If you give someone the cold shoulder you signal that you don't want to communicate with them. This usually happens after you had an argument with them.
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Cold shoulder vs. cold hand #3 (permalink) Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:14 am   Cold shoulder vs. cold hand
 

Hi Golf

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The explanation of this that is often found is that welcome visitors were given a hot meal but those less welcome were offered only the cold shoulder (of meat, e.g. mutton). This is repeated in several etymological texts, including Hendrickson's usually reliable, 'Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins'. There's no evidence to support this view though and it appears to be an example of folk etymology.


By the way, could anybody say whether we should use the hyphened form to cold-shoulder in the case when we want to use it as a verb
or to cold shoulder is also OK?
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Cold shoulder vs. cold hand #4 (permalink) Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:18 am   Cold shoulder vs. cold hand
 

Hi,

You might be interested to know how the expression comes about. If you turn your shoulder around as in turning your back on seeing someone, you are indicating to another person that you don't want to have anything to do with them. In this way you giving them the cold (unfriendly) shoulder.

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Cold shoulder vs. cold hand #5 (permalink) Mon Jun 15, 2009 16:50 pm   Cold shoulder vs. cold hand
 

why Shocked SHOULDER Shocked ? can someone tell me the origin of this idiom?

I give somebody the hand... but the shouder?!

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ok ok ok you had explained it yet Very Happy

well I still don't agree completely to the using of this part of the body but no one cares Very Happy
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Cold shoulder vs. cold hand #6 (permalink) Mon Jun 15, 2009 17:55 pm   Cold shoulder vs. cold hand
 

In German we say 'to show the cold shoulder', which I think hits the nail on the head, and expresses it much better.
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Cold shoulder vs. cold hand #7 (permalink) Mon Jun 15, 2009 18:02 pm   Cold shoulder vs. cold hand
 

And in England we say, " Cold hands/feet, warm heart.
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