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be (as) cold as ice
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(Definition of be (as) cold as ice from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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SMART Thesaurus: Cold
Synonyms and related words:
- be cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey idiom
- bitter adjective (COLD)
- bitterly adverb (COLD)
- brass monkey weather idiom
- chill noun (COLD)
- chill verb
- cold front noun
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