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 Cold Shoulder.Cold Water Ordeal. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Cold Steel.
 
The persuasion of cold steel is persuasion enforced at the point of the sword or bayonet.   1
 


 Cold Shoulder.Cold Water Ordeal. 

 
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