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Originally Posted by hermit
perhaps (specifically on a date), it's like when "a hot-headed person
gets 'the cold shoulder'...".
hermit
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I was thinking about that one too in fact.
I was just not entirely sure if it wasn't used more in general, for getting a brush off rather than to do with (hot) expectations being dampened or shreded in a romantic way etc. But yes, it makes sense in this context as well in fact.
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