cold fish

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   an aloof unemotional person

   Broaderunpleasant person

Questions about cold fish

What does cold fish mean?

cold fish means "an aloof unemotional person".

Is cold fish a common word?

cold fish is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.