cold as a witch's kiss

adjective

Very cold.

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adjectivecold as a witch's kiss (not comparable)

alternative colder than a witch's kiss

  1. colloquialnot comparablesimileVery cold.

    Outside, frost glimmered. November, cold as a witch's kiss. Cold as his heart.

    2002, Judith Bowen, Cowboy Country, page 112
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    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
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