0 an unfriendly attitude shown to someone or something, especially by intentionally ignoring or showing no interest in them:
The young entrepreneur got a cold shoulder from the business establishment.
1 used to describe a top (= a piece of clothing covering the top half of the body) or dress that has sleeves with parts cut out to show the shoulders:
2 to deliberately ignore someone in an unfriendly way:
He found himself being cold-shouldered by his former colleagues.
The president is now getting the cold shoulder from both his right flank and his centrists.
Instead of trying to make a deal with us, he turns a cold shoulder.
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We have a wide range of cold-shoulder and off-the-shoulder tops.
Do we disengage completely from them, blacklist and cold-shoulder them so that they are left outside the international community, or do we engage with them?
