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cold comforts

cold comforts is the plural of cold comfort.

Meaning of cold comfort

Noun

cold comfort (countable and uncountable, plural cold comforts)

  1. (idiomatic) Much less reassurance, consolation, aid, or pleasure than one needs or desires.
    • […] or ſhall I complaine on thee to our miſtris, whoſe hand / (ſhe being now at hand) thou ſhalt ſoone feele, to thy / cold comfort, for being ſlow in thy hot office.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Questions about cold comforts

What is cold comforts the plural of?
Cold comforts is the plural of cold comfort.

Words near cold comforts in the dictionary

  1. cold cocks
  2. cold coffee
  3. cold collation
  4. cold collations
  5. cold comfort
  6. cold comforts
  7. cold cook
  8. cold cooks
  9. cold cream
  10. cold creams
  11. cold cut

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