cold fish
Example Sentences
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The buffet table included pickled salads, pâté, cold fish wraps and twarog — something like a white farmer cheese — most of which we also piled on our plates.
From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2021
Detractors called him “Slippery Slade” and “living proof that not all cold fish comes in a can.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2020
This is charming but also compatible with Tesla’s portrait of Edison as a cold fish.
From Slate • Aug. 21, 2020
If he lost his way, his cold fish of a son never quite caught up to the pace of democratization either.
From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2019
Clara, unshakable, led Blanca to a chair and served her a plate of cold fish with caper sauce.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
