cold turkey in English

noun
1
the abrupt and complete cessation of taking a drug to which one is addicted.
cold turkey, with no medication, is not recommended for those with medical conditions
adverb
1
in a sudden and abrupt manner.
many banks have cut commercial builders off cold turkey

Use "cold turkey" in a sentence

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1. Gotta go cold turkey.

2. He quIt'smoking cold turkey.

3. I quit smoking cold turkey.

4. I told him cold turkey.

5. John did a cold turkey.

6. I quit cold turkey last Thursday.

7. She quit her job cold turkey.

8. The old lady was a cold turkey.

9. Let's talk cold turkey about our changes.

10. Serve with slices of cold turkey or ham.

11. John bravely kicked the habit of cold turkey.

12. Chad quIt'smoking cold turkey rather than use nicotine patches.

13. How come she doesn't go cold turkey a while back?

14. Andy does not dare ( to ) talk cold turkey to Cecily.

15. One day, my friend Rick went cold turkey on cigarettes.

16. I stopped smoking cold turkey and had to be hospitalized.

17. You see one mountain monster man, and you go cold turkey.

18. A South African zoo wants a chimpanzee to quIt'smoking cold turkey.

19. I quit that shit cold turkey and never did it again.

20. The world can't just quit on oil and nuclear power cold turkey.

21. It's like smoking. It's not a good idea to suddenly cold turkey.

22. Mary is a cold turkey. She looks down upon all her classmates.

23. Bill tried to kick cold turkey but it was just too much.

24. Cold turkey, five years ago, and what did I get for my trouble?

25. Club president Scott Doughty reckons spots only erupt when members go cold turkey.

26. G. M. has stated it will go cold turkey on incentives, and it has.

27. ONE way to treat a recovering drug addict is to force him cold turkey.

28. The millionaire talked cold turkey to his extravagant nephew, hinting that he might be disinherited.

29. The quickest way to get her off the drug was to let her go cold turkey.

30. I quit cold turkey some 25 years ago, but the specialists simply shrug off this kind of information.

31. If students can manage without A/C in the heat of examinations, could not the rest of the population go cold turkey once in a while ?

32. On the other hand, I hear fellow Abstainer-types saying to moderators, “You can’t keep cheating and expect to make progress” or “Why don’t you just go cold turkey?” But different approaches work for different people