OXFORD 9000
📚 prep_phrase • entry_id 28498

in cold blood

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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.
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.
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