Wiktionary:Word of the day/2022/October 19

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Word of the day
for October 19
come in from the cold v (intransitive, idiomatic)
  1. (espionage) Of a spy: to return home after having gone undercover in enemy territory.
  2. (by extension) To gain widespread acceptance in a group or society, especially where there was not any before.

The British author John le Carré, whose novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold popularized the term, was born on this day in 1931. Next year, 2023, is the 60th anniversary of the novel’s first publication.

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