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- Here’s one explanation of ‘cold turkey‘ and ‘talk turkey‘:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>“Cold turkey" is actually based on another colloquial phrase,
"to talk turkey" (sometimes "to talk cold turkey"), meaning
to face unpleasant truths squarely.“</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The other common explanation of ‘cold turkey‘ is that the
skin of a person coming off heroine resembles cold turkey in colour.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:navy'>As for</span></font>
puns about "turkeys"<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'> I don’t
know any, but I did come across the origin of “gobbledegook“ –
coined in 1944 by US lawyer Maury Maverick in imitation of a turkey gobbling.</span></font></p>
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