cold turkey

1. 1.

   a blunt expression of views

   “I told him cold turkey”

   Broaderexpression
2. 2.

   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”

   Broaderwithdrawal

Questions about cold turkey

What does cold turkey mean?

cold turkey means "a blunt expression of views". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is cold turkey a common word?

cold turkey 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.