in cold blood

English

Etymology

From a specialized meaning of cold, referring to lack of empathy.

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

in cold blood

1. (idiomatic) In a ruthless and unfeeling manner, particularly as applied to first-degree murder committed without provocation and with malice aforethought.

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

   • 2020 January 22, “Suspect in Lop Buri gold robbery-murders arrested”, in Bangkok Post‎^[1], Bangkok: Bangkok Post Public Company Limited, retrieved 2020-01-22:

     Police have arrested a suspect in the murder-robbery of a gold shop in Lop Buri two weeks ago, in which a young child and two adults were killed in cold blood.

Related terms

• cold-blooded

Translations

in a ruthless and unfeeling manner

• Arabic: بِدَم بَارِد (bi-dam bārid)
• Asturian: a sangre frío
• Belarusian: халаднакро́ўна (xaladnakróŭna)
• Bulgarian: хладнокръ́вно (bg) (hladnokrǎ́vno)
• Catalan: a sang freda
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冷血地 (zh) (lěngxuè de)

• Czech: chladnokrevně (cs)
• Danish: med koldt blod
• Dutch: in koelen bloede, koudbloedig (nl)
• Esperanto: malvarmsange
• Finnish: kylmäverisesti, julmasti (fi)
• French: de sang froid (fr)
• Galician: a sangue frío (gl)
• German: kaltblütig (de)
• Greek: εν ψυχρώ (el) (en psychró)
• Hungarian: hidegvérrel
• Icelandic: með köldu blóði
• Italian: a sangue freddo
• Japanese: 冷酷に (ja) (れいこくに, reikoku ni)
• Korean: 냉혈의 (naenghyeor-ui), 랭혈의 (raenghyeor-ui) (North Korea)
• Luxembourgish: kalbliddeg
• Macedonian: ладнокрвно (ladnokrvno)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: med kaldt blod

• Polish: z zimną krwią (pl)
• Portuguese: a sangue frio
• Romanian: cu sânge rece
• Russian: хладнокро́вно (ru) (xladnokróvno)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хла̏днокр̄вно

  Roman: hlȁdnokr̄vno (sh)

• Slovak: chladnokrvne
• Slovene: hladnokrvno
• Spanish: a sangre fría
• Swedish: kallblodigt (sv), med berått mod
• Ukrainian: холоднокро́вно (xolodnokróvno)