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Meaning: (idiomatic)Todeliberatelyfailtoprovidesomeone withsupport; toignoreorneglect.1902,Laurence Housman, “[Appendix: What is a Fairy Tale?]‘Introduction’ toGammer Grethel’s Fairy Tales”, in Michael Newton, editor,Victorian Fairy Tales(Oxford World’s Classics), Oxford, Oxfordshire:Oxford University Press, published2015,→ISBN,page401; 1st paperback edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press,2016,→ISBN:I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not writethis is a horseunder what I foolishly meant for one. Any key to a work of imagination would be nearly, if not quite, as absurd. The tale is there, not to hide, but to show: if it show nothing at your window, do not open your door to it;leaveitout in the cold.1906,A[dolphus] W[illiam] Ward, “Wallenstein andBernard of Weimar”, in A. W. Ward,G[eorge] W[alter] Prothero,Stanley Leathes, editors,The Cambridge Modern History, volume IV (The Thirty Years’ War), Cambridge: At theUniversity Press,→OCLC, section 1 (Wallenstein’s End (1632–4)),page234:There was as yet no question of his [Albrecht von Wallenstein's] abandoning the Emperor [Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor], but he obviously meant toleaveboth Saxony and Bavariaout in the cold.1935June, Hays Jones,Seamen and Longshoremen under the Red Flag(In a Soviet America), New York, N.Y.: Workers Library Publishers,→OCLC; republished inInvestigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States: Hearings before a SpecialCommittee on Un-American Activities,House of Representatives, Seventy-sixthCongress, First Session on H. Res. 282[…], volume11, Washington, D.C.:United States Government Printing Office, 3 November 1939 (published 1940),→OCLC,page6797:He [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] promised unemployment insurance—he give[sic– meaninggives]us the Wagner-Lewis bill whichleavesentirelyout in the coldthe 17 million now unemployed.1950January, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, inRailway Magazine, pages12–13:While at first in the U.S.A. it may have been a matter of high-pressure salesmanship—and it has undoubtely been the irresistible enterprise of the General Motors Corporation, through its Electro-Motive subsidiary, that has set in motion this amazingly rapid transformation of American railway motive power, and has caused all the steam locomotive builders in the U.S.A. to follow suit or beleft out in the cold—it seems now beyond dispute that, so far as the U.S.A. is concerned, the economics of the power question can be solved no other way.2000,Gio Batta Gori, “Cigarettes at the Third Millennium”, inVirtually Safe Cigarettes: Reviving an Opportunity Once Tragically Rejected, Amsterdam:IOS Press,→ISBN,pages16–17:Although the settlement used the arguments of antismokers as a background, antismokers themselves were marginalized on account of their own long-standing prohibitionist policies. [...] Short ofleavingthemselvesout in the coldand irrelevant, antismokers had no choice but to join as the lesser partners at the settlement table.2010, Carol Phillip-Tudor,The Boy, the Professor, and Ella’s Regret, Pittsburgh, Pa.:RoseDog Books,→ISBN,page235:[H]e might have been looking for an excuse to cover his ass andleavethe boyout in the cold.2011, Patricia Reed, chapter 3, inThe House in the Curve: The Portrait,[Bloomington, Ind.]:Xlibris,→ISBN,pages28–29:To make a long story short, I got them together andleftmyselfout in the cold. That became the beginning of a long and painful relationship between Billy and me.2014,Lucy Diamond[pseudonym; Sue Mongredien],One Night in Italy, London:Pan Books,→ISBN; republished London: Pan Books,2016,→ISBN,page44:And there it was, the old power-dynamic reasserting itself: Mum siding physically with Dad, ganging up andleavingherout in the cold.2018July 25, A. A. Dowd, “Falloutmay be the Most Breathlessly IntenseMission: ImpossibleAdventure Yet”, inThe A.V. Club[1], archived fromthe originalon31 July 2018:For a while, the biggest question mark of allegiance is August Walker (Henry Cavill, subverting his man-of-steel screen presence), the brutish CIA tagalong feeding his superiors the theory that[Ethan] Huntmay really be going rogue after years of beingleft out in the coldby his handlers.
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