To ask someone to get out of the room so that he may not listen something important, ignored and left out

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  • Just imagine, if someone locks the door and you are left outside in the cold weather, you would definitely feel rejected, ignored and left out. Today it is used to refer to keep someone out or away from something important. Earlier the expression was used as it is, “left out in the cold” mean to expel or exclude someone out of the room to suffer cold weather.
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To plan a surprise for little Jack, his parents asked him to go out in the cold.

Submitted on February 25, 2019

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dejado en el frio

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