Go Cold Turkey
- Go Cold Turkey
- How common is this idiom?: Although this idiom has been around for a while, it's still widely used in modern language, particularly in informal settings and online communities.
- Literal Meaning: To stop consuming something abruptly, like quitting eating turkey cold.
- Actual Idiomatic Meaning: To stop doing something abruptly, especially to quit an addiction or a habit, without gradually reducing it or tapering off.
- After a year of smoking, she decided to quit cold turkey and hasn't had a cigarette since.
- He tried to go cold turkey on coffee, but the headaches were unbearable.
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