someone who is unemotional or not friendly
кто-то, кто бесчувственный или не дружелюбный (kto-to, kto beschuvstvennyy ili ne druzhelyubnyy)
"He seemed a cold fish when I first met him."
"Он казался холодной рыбой, когда я встретил его впервые." (On kazalsya kholodnoy ryboy, kogda ya vstretil ego vpervye)
to raise a false alarm
to reach the intended audience effectively
to disrupt or complicate something
to establish a standard of performance or progress for other...
to delay taking action or making a response
to see a small sign of improvement in a bad situation