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What is "the cold" in the title? What spy "comes in from the cold"?
اشکان نیری "to come in from the cold" is an idiom.
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come in from the cold
Also, come in out of the co…more"to come in from the cold" is an idiom.
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http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/c...

come in from the cold
Also, come in out of the cold. Return to shelter and safety, be welcomed into a group. For example, Bill was fed up with traveling on his own for the company and hoped they'd let him come in from the cold , or After years of not being invited to join, Steve was finally asked to come in out of the cold . This phrase, generally used figuratively, gained currency in the 1960s with John LeCarré's best-selling spy novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, about a long-time British spy in the cold war who longed to abandon the dirty tricks of his profession.(less)
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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