Antonyms for cold turkeycold tur·key

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Princeton's WordNet

1. cold turkeynoun

   a blunt expression of views

   "I told him cold turkey"

2. cold turkeynoun

   complete and abrupt withdrawal of all addictive drugs or anything else on which you have become dependent

   "he quit smoking cold turkey"; "she quit her job cold turkey"

How to use cold turkey in a sentence?

1. Linda Bauld:

   Nicotine withdrawal is a very unpleasant process, the vast number of people using e-cigarettes are using them to stop smoking; [they're] about 60% more effective than going cold turkey or buying nicotine replacement therapy over the counter.

2. Jamie Hopkins:

   This gives you the ability to test-drive retirement, as opposed to cold turkey.

3. Bill Carter:

   You can't quit Trump cold turkey.

4. Bill Carter:

   There's a bit of an addiction metaphor here because you can't quit President Donald Trump cold turkey, they're going to find it's tough to move on because the stories will continue to play out. I mean, Stephen Colbert'll criticize every single thing that Biden does, and there's the story of the insurrection. So until all of that becomes resolved, President Donald Trump will still be a massive story for everybody, including late-night.

5. Tim Clark:

   Maybe there's a tournament where I'm dead-last playing on Sunday and I might do something, but it's not really a move I want to do this year, but at some point, I'm going to have to do it because you don't want to come out cold turkey next year and start using a new putting technique.

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