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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a chilly shoulder" is not correct; the correct expression is "the cold shoulder." You can use it to describe someone who is intentionally unfriendly or dismissive towards another person.
Example: "After their argument, she gave him the cold shoulder at the party, refusing to acknowledge his presence."
Alternatives: "the cold shoulder" or "a frosty reception."
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If you are willing to go in a chilly shoulder season (May or September) you and a cabinmate can do a seven-day cruise for $579 apiece.
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Michael Kors imagined a gender mix-up at the coat check, or maybe that blushingly erotic moment when a gentleman slips his camel coat over his date's chilly shoulders.
You may even have been seated next to her at dinner last night, some charming Manhattan trophy wife with a chip on her shoulder and a chilly laugh, and recoiled a bit without knowing why.
Further down the strip, locals tip pints at 13th Street Pub and Grill while a few hardy souls shoulder into a chilly drizzle at Camel's Back Park, which boasts a 15-piece outdoor gym, playground and access to a preserve webbed with hiking and mountain bike trails.
Shouts, whistles and the smack of colliding helmets and shoulder pads reverberate around the indoor practice field of the University of Nebraska football team on a chilly December afternoon.
A chilly fever.
A chilly one.
Maybe it took a chilly man to find change chilly.
Outside, it's a chilly late November.
There's a chilly pause.
He got a chilly reception.
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