Idiom | Left Out in the Cold |
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Example | Christina told everyone else about the party, hut she left me out in the cold. |
Meaning | to not tell someone something; to exclude someone from a place or activity |
Origin | If someone locked the door and left you outside on a cold night, you would feel excluded and ignored. When this expression first became popular, it meant exactly that: literally being left outside in cold weather. |
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