present participle of leave someone out in the cold

simple past tense and past participle of leave someone out in the cold

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of leave someone out in the cold

Alternative form of make someone's blood run cold

(literally) One feels a physical shock upon realizing a direct threat to one's life, similar to the loss of blood in the brain. It affects the entire body for a few minutes, but does not cause the person to lose consciousness.

Having cold hands is an indication of warmheartedness; used as a rejoinder if one finds that another's hands are cold.

(informal, medicine) Surgery (procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body).

Alternative form of bright lights and cold steel

(simile, UK, colloquial, vulgar, humorous) Very cold.

(idiomatic) A statement that one will not allow something (most often a firearm or other weapon) to be taken away from one's possession until after one's death. A variant, from my cold dead fingers, is most often used in the US by gun rights advocates.