Re: Cold
Shoulder
Posted by R. Berg on October 29, 2002 In Reply to: Cold Shoulders posted by jim
on October 29, 2002
: Where did the phrase, "Get the cold shoulder?"
come from? Thank you...from Saxon
One hypothesis is that it originally referred
to serving bad meat (a cold shoulder of mutton) to make guests leave, but there's
more support for the idea that it came from coldly turning one's back on someone.
See
http://www.word-detective.com/011502.html#coldshoulder
(link below).
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