left in the cold vs outcast

left in the cold

outcast

adj
  • That has been cast out; banished, ostracized. 

noun
  • The amount of increase in the bulk of grain during malting. 

  • One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper. 

  • A quarrel. 

  • Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit. 

verb
  • To cast out; to banish. 

How often have the words left in the cold and outcast occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )