like 'cold turkey' only to a higher degree, or in a situation involving greater stakes. Also a favorite of the wealthier classes who are never to be caught eating turkey, and thus cannot identify with 'cold turkey', so must substitute a more familiar 'mignon.'
Because cocaine habbits are no longer consideredsophisticated or attractive in the upper east side of manhattan, he decided just to quit cold mignon.
by Margot May 29, 2004