come in from the cold

Language: en

Meaning: (espionage)Of aspy: toreturnhomeafter havinggoneundercoverinenemyterritory.1963September,John le Carré[pseudonym; David John Moore Cornwell], “The Circus”, inThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:Coward-McCann, published1964,→OCLC,page23:I mean … one can't be out in the cold all the time; one has tocome in from the cold… do you see what I mean?; (by extension)Togainwidespreadacceptancein agrouporsociety, especially where there was not any before.Long an outsider in Western politics, Portugalcame in from the coldafter the 1974 Carnation Revolution.

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