The phrase "a cold welcome" is grammatically correct and is commonly used in written English.
It means that someone was not greeted warmly or kindly upon arriving somewhere. You can use this phrase in situations where someone was expecting a warm welcome, but instead received a chilly or unwelcoming reception. For example: - After waiting in line for hours, we were given a cold welcome by the manager who seemed annoyed by our presence. - The new student received a cold welcome from her classmates, who were not interested in making her feel included. - Despite all the preparations I made, my in-laws gave me a cold welcome when I arrived at their house for the holidays.
The resulting migration, legal and not, has drained nations of their strongest and potentially brightest, who nonetheless often receive a cold welcome in the North.
There's a nervousness in her manner, but also a determination, as we see when a man on a motor scooter tootles into the driveway and she gives him a cold welcome.
But the reality, as many are discovering, is shoddily constructed housing, money that has been skimmed by officials, no jobs and a cold welcome from existing locals who are reluctant to share their property.
Colony pulled this off with hardly a political ripple at a time when most private equity funds are finding a cold welcome for the billions of dollars they have piled up to invest in Asia.
He gets a cold welcome from Robb Stark Richard Maddenn), acting Lord of Winterfell in his father Eddard's absence.
Greek protesters gave Angela Merkel an ice cold welcome in Athens on Tuesday, and some demonstrators went pretty far to express their discontent with the German chancellor's visit.
But despite the icy cold welcome extended to him by fans of a team whose chances of making the knockout stages are hanging by a thread, Benitez was upbeat in yesterday's pre-match media pow-wow, which you can read all about in our man Dominic Fifield's report.
Cold welcome and no grateful farewell from the hosts; friendly, willing wait staff.
Despite the cold welcome, Bluemner lived in New Jersey for 10 years, sketching, painting and moving his family frequently to dodge rent collectors.
He wrote of their cold welcome in the ironically titled French Hospitality (1984), and in Racism Explained to My Daughter (1998), cited a long "tradition of rejecting the foreign that reached a low point in the Dreyfus affair... Racism has not increased, but freed itself from shame".
Ladled on a nest of tagliatelle, wild boar Bolognese — dark and heavy — would have been more welcome on a cold January night, as would the simple and dry charcuterie of smoked and cured meats, hard cheese and crumbling pâté.
