Person showing no emotion, caught getting on after nicking francs (4,4)
I believe the answer is:
cold fish
'person' is the definition.
(cold fish is a kind of person)
'caught getting on after nicking francs' is the wordplay.
'caught' becomes 'c' (cricket abbreviation).
'getting on' becomes 'oldish'.
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'nicking' indicates putting letters inside (I've seen this in other clues).
'francs' becomes 'f' (this could be a standard abbreviation I've not previously seen).
'c'+'oldish'='coldish'
'coldish' enclosing 'f' is 'COLD FISH'.
'showing no emotion' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cold fish that I've seen before include "Unemotional person of piscine sort" , "One who shows no emotion" , "Unemotional person like chilled water animal" , "unfriendly type" , "Unpleasantly unemotional type" .)