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Cold Pigeon (A)

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A message sent in place of a love-letter. The love-letter would have been a poulet (q.v.). A pigeon pie is called a dove-tart, and dove is symbolical of love. Pyramus says of Thisbe, “What dead, my dove?” A verbal message is “cold comfort” to a lover looking out for a letter.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Coke upon Littleton
Colbronde or Colbrand
Colcannon
Cold as Charity
Cold-Bath Fields
Cold Blood
Cold-blooded Animals
Cold-blooded Persons
Cold-chisel (A)
Cold Drawn Oil
Cold Pigeon (A)
Cold Pudding settles Love
Cold Shoulder
Cold Steel
Cold Water Ordeal
Cold Without
Coldbrand
Coldstream Guards
Cole = money
Cole (King)
Colemira