Meanings
adjectivecold as death (not comparable)
- not comparablesimileVery cold.
The night was growing colder, and there was a small sharp wind stirring from the east. But hot or cold, it was all one to him, who was already cold as death.
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
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