cold fish

Meaning

Noun

A heartless individual; a person lacking empathy and emotion.
A sexual partner who, during sex, lacks vigor or emotional reciprocity.

Origin

in The Winter's Tale, act 4, scene 4:
: a cold fish for she would not exchange flesh with / one that loved her

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