Synonyms for cold fish

Grammar : Noun

Définition of cold fish

noun unemotional person

Example sentences :

This is a piquante relish for lobsters, crabs, cold fish, &c.
Extract from : « The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual » by William Kitchiner

To possess these qualities opens one to the suspicion of being a cold fish.
Extract from : « The Unpopular Review Vol. I » by Various

She offered us cold fish, fried in oil, from her frying pan.
Extract from : « From the Oak to the Olive » by Julia Ward Howe

This butter is excellent to decorate and to eat with cold fish.
Extract from : « Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks » by Pierre Blot

Cold fish, cold cutlets, dishevelled chicken, half-eaten sweets.
Extract from : « Lady Cassandra » by Mrs George de Horne Vaizey

Take equal parts of cold fish (free from skin and bone) boiled rice and some hard boiled eggs.
Extract from : « 365 Luncheon Dishes » by Anonymous

(Possum appears from around the corner of the house with both hands full of cold fish).
Extract from : « Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 1 » by Various

Take any sort of cold fish, bone it, and then chop it with the remains of a cold omelet, and some mushrooms if you have them.
Extract from : « Domestic French Cookery, 4th ed. » by Sulpice Baru

It was cold fish and sea-sodden hardtack till they saw land again—if they ever did.
Extract from : « The Valor of Cappen Varra » by Poul William Anderson

I remember one lyric tenor who was my bugbear because he had hands like a fresh, cold fish.
Extract from : « Confessions of an Opera Singer » by Kathleen Howard

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