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cold as a witch's kiss

cold as a witch's kiss adjective: very cold.

Adjective

cold as a witch's kiss (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial, simile) Very cold.
    • They're all cold. Cold as a witch's kiss. Mean temperatures of 40° Fahrenheit. Never get hotter than 70.1954, Alfred Bester, “Fondly Fahrenheit”, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 7, page 18
    • Descend some twenty feet through the pleasant warmth of the ocean's upper layer and you are in water as cold as a witch's kiss.1974, James W. Merchant, The use of high altitude aerial photography to inventory wildlife habitat in Kansas, page 40

Forms of cold as a witch's kiss

alternative formcolder than a witch's kiss

Questions about cold as a witch's kiss

What does cold as a witch's kiss mean?
Cold as a witch's kiss means very cold.
What part of speech is cold as a witch's kiss?
Cold as a witch's kiss is an adjective.

Words near cold as a witch's kiss in the dictionary

  1. cold approaches
  2. cold approaching
  3. cold as a mackerel
  4. cold as a wagon tire
  5. cold as a well-digger's arse
  6. cold as a witch's kiss
  7. cold as a witch's teat
  8. cold as a witch's tit
  9. cold as a witch's tit in a brass bra
  10. cold as balls
  11. cold as charity

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