| Where you once cold-shouldered friends without warning, you now realize you did so out of fear that they were souring on you. |
| Given their importance as an instrument of social regulation, it's odd that the law and law enforcement were so long cold-shouldered by historians. |
| Inevitably his appeals for financial assistance were ignored and, though not cashiered from the army, he was pointedly cold-shouldered by his brother officers. |
