When someone is Going Cold Turkey it means that they are trying to stop doing something abruptly that affects them physically. For example when alcoholics or drug addicts try to kick the habit they usually get Goose pimples on their skin caused by cold chills.
This strange expression has its origins in the fact that when turkeys are plucked and sent to market their white skin is covered with welts or dumps from where the feathers were pulled out. Someone apparently seen the similarities and the expression stuck.
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