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| Hara kiri is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word seppuku which means, literally, belly splitting.
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Cobbler should stick to his last, the display or be shown intentional coldness, indifference or rejection it is often said that this is from the idea of offering or being given a dish of cold shoulder of mutton left over from a previous meal, interpreted as a sign that the recipient was an unfavoured visitor. However, this is highly unlikely and is probably no more than a well-meant attempt to explain a puzzling expression. The actual fact is that the first recorded use of the phrase is in a novel by sir walter scott, the antiquary (1816): 'the countess's dislike didna gang farther at first than just showing o' the cauld shouther'. It also appeared in another of scott's works, st ronan's well (1824): 'i must tip him the cold shoulder, or he will be pestering me eternally'. Within a decade or two, it was being used in works by the brontСЂВ»s, dickens, trollope and galsworthy, among others. The sudden popularity of the expression from the 1820s on, and the total absence of it in literature before sir walter scott used it, strongly suggests that he either invented it or he popularised a saying that beforehand had been uncommon. Scott being the popular writer that he then was makes this seem very likely. It also seems likely that the expression never referred to meat. It is more probable that the cold shoulder was always a direct reference to that dismissive jerk of one side of the upper body to indicate a studied rejection or indifference. Scott's use of 'tip the cold shoulder' and 'show the cold shoulder' would suggest this is so.
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