stone cold

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1. idiomaticVery cold (literally); lacking any semblance of warmth.

   I forgot to turn on the burner under the soup and found it sitting there, still stone cold, twenty minutes later.

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   Near-synonyms: ice-cold, cold as ice, icy, freezing cold, frigid, cold as a well-digger's arse; see also Thesaurus:cold

   Synonyms: ice-cold, cold as ice, icy, freezing cold, frigid, cold as a well-digger's arse, algid, Arctic

2. idiomaticLacking emotion or compassion.

   a stone-cold killer

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   a stone-cold demeanor

   Synonyms: stony, cold

3. idiomaticCertain; definite; obvious.

   a stone cold certainty

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   a stone cold guarantee

   "A hike on Thursday looks a stone cold certainty," Howard Archer, chief UK economist at Global Insight, said.

   2006 November 6, Philip Thornton, “Interest rate rise a 'stone-cold certainty' despite industry plea”, in The Independent

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1. idiomaticnot comparableusuallyCertainly; definitely; obviously.

   It is stone cold guaranteed that that guy will get his clock cleaned if he shows up here today.

   Synonyms: dead