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Definition 2024

in_cold_blood

in cold blood

English

Prepositional phrase

in cold blood

(idiomatic) In a ruthless and unfeeling manner; premeditated and deliberate, without provocation.
It was not a suicide! He was murdered in cold blood.

Translations

in a ruthless and unfeeling manner

Asturian: a sangre frío
Catalan: a sang freda
Chinese:
Mandarin: 冷血 (zh) ‎(lěngxuè)
Dutch: in koelen bloede
Finnish: kylmäverisesti, julmasti (fi)
French: de sang froid (fr)
Galician: a sangue frío (gl)
German: kaltblütig (de)
Greek: εν ψυχρώ (el) ‎(en psychró)

Hungarian: hidegvérrel
Icelandic: með köldu blóði
Italian: a sangue freddo
Japanese: 冷酷に (ja) ‎(れいこくに, reikoku ni)
Luxembourgish: kalbliddeg
Portuguese: a sangue frio
Russian: хладнокро́вно (ru) ‎(xladnokróvno)
Spanish: a sangre fría
Swedish: kallblodigt, med berått mod

Related terms

cold-blooded