cold turkey
Noun
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.005
Noun
cold turkey (uncountable)
- Sudden and complete withdrawal from a dependent substance, especially a drug.
- The physiological effects of such a withdrawal.
- German: kalter Entzug
- Italian: astinenza completa, astinenza
- French: manque
- Italian: crisi di astinenza
- Portuguese: crise de abstinência
afternoon (not comparable)
- (idiomatic) Not gradually; all at once. Refers especially to quitting a habit by force of will rather than by a gradual reduction.
- It is difficult, but possible to quit smoking cold turkey.
- French: brutalement, d'un coup d'un seul, d'un seul coup
- German: abrupt
- Italian: di colpo, di punto in bianco
- Russian: ре́зко
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.005