cold turkey
cold turkey noun
cold turkey
noun
Learner's definition of COLD TURKEY
[noncount] informal
: the act of stopping a bad habit (such as taking drugs) in a sudden and complete way（坏习惯的）突然戒除（法）
- I tried lots of ways to stop smoking, even cold turkey.我试过很多戒烟方法，甚至包括突然戒烟法。
— cold turkey
adverb- Instead of trying to quit cold turkey, why don't you slowly decrease the amount that you smoke?与其试图突然戒烟，为何不慢慢减少你的吸烟量呢？
- Some people have to go cold turkey to stop.有些人必须即刻戒除坏习惯。
