ice queen

plural ice queens

1. idiomaticA beautiful but heartless woman.

   […]If I think money matters, I must be a heartless ice queen who can't take care of herself.

   2009, J. Courtney Sullivan, Dating Up: Dump the Schlump and Find a Quality Man, Hachette, →ISBN

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   Miss O'Neil's duplicitous power-mad ice queen epitomizes cruel hauteur with a streak of lethal saccharine—she is a nightmare stepmother.

   1986 October 5, Stephen Holden, “Drama: 'Narnia' A Children's Musical”, in New York Times, retrieved 02 Jan 2014

   Rice has never been the robot she plays on national television. She built the image the public has of her as an ice queen stuck on repeat. It’s the downside of her extreme loyalty to Bush.

   2007 May 3, Marcus Mabry, “Why Condi Is Talking to the Enemy”, in Newsweek, retrieved 02 Jan 2014

   Wilson: Log Update: I can't figure Miranda out. As project director, she should be ecstatic at all the progress we've made. But she's still the same old ice queen. Wilson: Maybe she's worried Shepard might become the new favorite. Or maybe she's just a pure, cold-hearted bitch.

   2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2022, PC, scene: Prologue: Awakening (Lazarus Research Station, Public Computer)

   It was there—after she fired most of the staff—that Fleet Street began to paint [Anna Wintour] as an ice queen.

   2023 September 23, Lauren Indvik, “God is in the details”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3

   Synonyms: ice maiden

2. informalhobbiesA female ice-skating champion.

   Olympic figure skating champion Kim Yuna will make her return to competition at the Golden Spin event in Zagreb next month.

   2013 November 4, Narae Kim, “Ice Queen Yuna returns with a Golden Spin”, in Reuters Canada, retrieved 02 Jan 2014

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   This time, she was beaten by 16-year-old Tanja Szewczenko, who is threatening to usurp the two-time Olympic champion, Katarina Witt, as Germany's ice queen.

   1993 November 24, Jere Longman, “Olympics: 80 Days to Lillehammer”, in New York Times, retrieved 02 Jan 2014