in cold blood

English

Adverb

in cold blood

1. (idiomatic) In a ruthless and unfeeling manner; premeditated and deliberate.

   It was not a suicide! He was murdered in cold blood.

Translations

in a ruthless and unfeeling manner

• Asturian: a sangre frío (ast)
• Catalan: a sang freda (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冷血 (cmn) (lěngxuè)

• Dutch: in koelen bloede (nl)
• Finnish: kylmäverisesti (fi), julmasti (fi)
• French: de sang froid (fr)
• Galician: a sangue frío (gl)

• German: kaltblütig (de)
• Greek: εν ψυχρώ (el) (en psychró)
• Hungarian: hidegvérrel (hu)
• Japanese: 冷酷に (ja) (れいこくに, reikoku ni)
• Portuguese: a sangue frio (pt)
• Russian: хладнокровно (ru) (xladnokróvno) 
• Spanish: a sangre fría (es)
• Swedish: kallblodigt (sv)

Related terms

• cold-blooded