come in from the cold

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to become accepted or included in a group, etc. after a period of being outside it

   Hunt's come in from the cold.

In the movies · 2

• Well now that he s gone missing I came in from the coldFast X2023
• Hunt's come in from the cold.All the President's Men1976

Learn it in full scenes

• All the President's Men1976
  • Police Arrest the Watergate Burglars
  • Woodward Traces the White House Call
  • Who Gets the Watergate Story

From the same entry

• a cold fish
• get cold feet
• give the cold shoulder
• in cold blood
• in the cold light of day
• leave cold
• pour cold water on
• make blood run cold
• blow hot and cold
• go hot and cold
• leave out in the cold
• catch your death