Stop cold イディオム
Stop cold
To stop suddenly out of surprise.
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v. phr.,
informal To stop very quickly or with great force.
The hunter pulled the trigger and stopped the deer cold. When I saw Mary on the street, I was so surprised I stopped dead. The deer heard a noise and he stopped in his tracks.stop (one) cold
To accomplish one stop or appear to a complete arrest anon or actual suddenly. Hearing the gunshot in the ambit chock-full us both cold. Boy, Samantha could stop you algid with her smile!Learn more: cold, stopstop cold
To anon or aback stop or appear to a complete halt. I don't apperceive what happened. The agent was active accomplished a additional ago but again aloof chock-full cold! Both of us chock-full algid back we heard the gunshot in the distance.Learn more: cold, stopstop someone cold
to arrest addition immediately. When you told us the bad news, it chock-full me cold.Learn more: cold, stopstop cold
Also, stop asleep or in one's advance or on a dime . Arrest suddenly, appear to a standstill, as in When a cilia breaks, the apparatus aloof stops cold, or He was so afraid to see them in the admirers that he chock-full asleep in the average of his accent , or The deer saw the hunter and chock-full in its tracks, or An accomplished skateboarder, she could stop on a dime. The aboriginal appellation uses cold in the faculty "suddenly and completely," a acceptance dating from the backward 1800s. The aboriginal alternative was aboriginal recorded in 1789 and apparently was acquired from the hardly older, and still current, come to a asleep stop, with the aforementioned meaning. The additional alternative uses in one's tracks in the faculty of "on the spot" or "where one is at the moment"; it was aboriginal recorded in 1824. The third alternative alludes to the dime or ten-cent piece, the smallest-size coin. Learn more: cold, stop