Assertion: cold turkey | /r/HasProperty | thought to date
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text: cold turkey” itself is thought to date back to 1877 and a story in popular British satirical magazine Judy in which slices of cold turkey are used as a plot device; one theory is that the “cold turkey treatment” began to be used as a phrase meaning cutting someone off or excommunicating them, and over the following decades this metamorphosed into a way of describing cutting something off.