Cold turkey
Cold turkey noun - A cold aloof person.
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Help and cold turkey are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Help" instead a verb phrase "Cold turkey".
Help
Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.
Cold turkey and help are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cold turkey" instead a verb "Help".
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In the end, he decides to give them the drug, but refuse to help them fix their freighters, thus causing them to go cold turkey.
- It get so bad, that the Doctor Barber recommends a rather painful surgery to cure him but agrees to let Flapjack try to help the captain quit cold turkey as an alternative.
Source: Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere -
Worried friends may try to help by Nailing Them To The Wagon, though this attempt at forcing them to go Cold Turkey will result in delirium tremens (hence why it is a tradition in psychology that when rehabilitating someone, do it step-by-step).
Source: The Alcoholic
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Help and Cold turkey. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cold_turkey/help
Cold turkey & Help. N.p., 2016. Web. 28 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/cold_turkey/help>.
Help or Cold turkey. 2016. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/cold_turkey/help.
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