cold turkey
Example Sentences
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“It was terrifying. You can’t just go cold turkey on these things,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
While it won’t kill you like some other vices, trying to quit this spiritually corrosive habit cold turkey is inadvisable.
From Salon • Dec. 3, 2025
According to medical literature and former patients, some programs, including CHOP, wean children off medications—including narcotics, antidepressants, steroids, and seizure medications—or encourage them to stop cold turkey.
From Slate • Sep. 15, 2025
You might not need to go cold turkey on your credit card spending.
From Seattle Times • May 30, 2023
In the evening, as the sky and most of the land turned red, they sat together eating cold turkey drumsticks and wearing green-shaded glasses to watch the lava burn.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
