What is Cold Mignon?
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like 'cold turkey' only to a higher degree, or in a situation involving greater stakes. Also a favorite of the wealthier classes who are never to be caught eating turkey, and thus cannot identify with 'cold turkey', so must substitute a more familiar 'mignon.'
Because cocaine habbits are no longer consideredsophisticated or attractive in the upper east side of manhattan, he decided just to quit cold mignon.
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