cold turkey

Etymology
Various explanations; see Cold turkey § Etymology on Wikipedia.

Noun

 * 1) Sudden and complete withdrawal from a dependent substance, especially a drug.
 * 2) The physiological effects of such a withdrawal.
 * 3)  Something exposed as a target due to surmountable defense.

Translations

 * Danish: kold tyrker
 * Dutch: abrupte ontwenning
 * German:
 * Hungarian: hirtelen abbahagyás/elhagyás/megvonás
 * Irish: tobstaonadh
 * Italian: astinenza completa,


 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: abstina sindromo
 * French:
 * Irish: tobstaonadh
 * Italian: crisi di astinenza
 * Portuguese: crise de abstinência
 * Swedish:

Adverb

 * 1)  Not gradually; all at once. Refers especially to quitting a habit by force of will rather than by a gradual reduction.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: di colpo,
 * Japanese: 突然に, 一度に
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:, , helt tvärt