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leave one cold

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  1. Disappoint one, fail to interest one. For example, This book leaves me cold. This expression, first recorded in 1853, employs cold in the sense of “unenthusiastic” or “indifferent,” a usage dating from the late 1100s.

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They leave one cold despite their erotic vehemence; the abuse of the vocative is not persuasive, their raptures are largely rhetorical.

From Project Gutenberg

Leave one cold; warm the other over the burner, but do not heat it to boiling.

From Project Gutenberg

Like his learning, which may astonish the simple, but which hardly illuminates the student, his virtues leave one cold.

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No really good instruction, any more than good story books, will leave one cold toward the theme in hand.

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