Cold Turkey
What a horrible image, the image of cold turkeys, because I don't think of live
turkeys standing outside in the snow, I think of frozen turkey from the supermarket,
with dimpled skin.
Where does that expression come from anyway?
I quit without patches not for heroism's sake but because I'm impatient and I like
the idea of getting the nicotine out of my system as soon as possible.
A short, intense burst of discomfort. The only problem is I have a thousand things
I need to do this week and my head feels like insulated roofing and the demands of
the outside world are tapping on the roof.
Dimly I try to follow what they say.
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"Origin
In the state of drug withdrawal the addicts blood is directed to the internal organs leaving the skin white and with goose bumps." from the phrase finder website
The expression doesn't have anything to do with turkeys or addicts.
"Turkey" is a somewhat obscure mid-western idiom meaning "seriously", as in the expression "to talk turkey".
"Cold" means "extremely", as in "cold sober".
Hence "cold turkey" just means "extremely seriously".
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