I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cold/chill wind
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There was a cold wind this afternoon.
a cold/cough/flu remedy
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Most cold remedies have little effect.
a cold/frosty morning
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Porridge tastes good on a cold morning.
a cold/hard heart (= used about someone who does not feel sympathy for other people )
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It takes a hard heart not to be moved by these images of suffering.
a cold/stony stare (= unfriendly )
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I smiled and said "hello" but only got a cold stare.
a cold/warm/hot spell
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There was a very cold spell in late November.
a cool/cold drink
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They were all out in the garden, sipping cool drinks.
bear the heat/cold
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Some people find it hard to bear the heat in the summer.
catch your death (of cold) British English spoken (= get a very bad cold )
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Don’t stand out in the rain. You’ll catch your death.
cold and unfeeling
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Dave had been quite wrong to call Michelle cold and unfeeling .
cold and wet
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I was too cold and wet to keep going.
cold call
cold comfort
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The drop in the unemployment figures is cold comfort to those still looking for work.
cold cream
cold cuts
cold food
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The cafeteria only serves cold food.
cold frame
cold front
cold fusion
cold shoulder
cold snap
cold sore
cold spell
cold storage
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He aims to please even if it means putting his principles in cold storage.
cold store
cold turkey
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addicts who are made to go cold turkey
cold war
cold
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The weather was cold and grey.
cold (= unfriendly and not showing any emotion )
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Her eyes were cold and uncaring.
cold
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I can only drink milk if it’s really cold.
cold
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That winter was particularly cold.
cold
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The water in the pool was pretty cold.
cold/cool
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Scotland's climate is too cold for these plants to survive.
cold/cruel (= unfriendly or unkind )
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He smiled, but his blue eyes were cold and cruel.
cold/harsh (= light that seems slightly blue )
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the cold light of the moon
cold/hot compress
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Apply a cold compress to the injury.
cold/ice-cold beer
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He opened the fridge and got out a can of ice-cold beer.
cold/icy contempt (= that shows in a very unfriendly way )
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I noticed the icy contempt in his voice.
cold/small comfort (= not much comfort )
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The tax changes will provide cold comfort to people living on a pension.
common cold
cool/cold
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The air had turned a little cooler.
deathly cold/white/pale
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She was deathly pale, and looked as if she might faint.
feel smooth/cold/damp etc
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Her hands felt rough.
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The house felt hot and stuffy.
freezing cold
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We were freezing cold in the tent last night.
go cold turkey
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addicts who are made to go cold turkey
head cold
heavy cold
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She’s in bed with a heavy cold .
hot and cold food
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The bar serves hot and cold food .
intense cold
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He was shivering with intense cold.
knock sb unconscious/cold/senseless (= hit someone so hard that they fall unconscious )
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Simon could knock a man unconscious with one punch to the jaw.
out cold
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How hard did you hit him? He’s out cold .
serve sth hot/cold etc
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Teacakes should be served hot with butter.
shiver with cold/fear/delight etc
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She shivered with fear and anger.
stinking cold
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I’ve got a stinking cold .
streaming cold British English (= an illness in which a lot of liquid comes out of your nose )
the cold/hot tap
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She scrubbed her hands under the cold tap.
the weather turns cold/nasty etc ( also it turns cold/nasty etc )
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Then it turned cold and started to rain.
trail went cold (= they could not find any signs of him )
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Police tracked him to Valencia and there the trail went cold .
warm/cold front (= an area of warm or cold air )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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She suddenly felt as cold as the raw wind of March that swept the streets of London outside her office window.
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In winter it was as cold as all outdoors.
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In some cases metals are actually strengthened by this process, which is known as cold working.
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It was as cold as ice.
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Despite the homely sounds, the place felt as cold and dank as a tomb.
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The spasm of hope and fear passed instantly, as cold logic replaced emotion.
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He was as cold as the stone she sat on, she thought forlornly.
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There was no heater in my dark little room, and at night it was almost as cold as it was outside.
bitterly
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I wasn't annoyed except that it was bitterly cold , freezing.
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And Robbo, fresh at Sale from league outfit Wigan, injected his own style on a bitterly cold afternoon.
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It was a Friday and bitterly cold .
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It was bitterly cold inside the aluminium hemisphere.
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We all know how bitterly cold it is now outside; it is not very cold here, of course.
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It was bitterly cold and it was raining.
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When morning came, bitterly cold and still dark, she had made up her mind.
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The air was bitterly cold and still, with the peculiar lifelessness that pervaded closed-off places.
so
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His hands were so cold he could hardly play the guitar.
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My fingers were so cold that I could hardly handle the cartridges, but they very soon warmed up to the work.
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I was soaked to the skin, my hands so cold I could hardly keep hold of the tiller.
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Besides that, the room was so cold that the water and the pipes were icy.
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It was cold , so cold in the jeep that it was with difficulty that Alexei kept his eyes open.
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Jack became wet to the skin, and grew so cold that he shook uncontrollably.
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But it is so cold , they thought.
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After being so cold she owed me that.
too
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It is far better to be too warm than too cold .
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It was too cold to talk.
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Their educational attainment was also being affected because their rooms were too cold to study in.
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But the water was too cold for bad decisions.
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It was really too cold for the clothes I had brought, so I fell back on a recommended resource.
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Running back to his car, he wanted to hug his Baby, but it was too cold .
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Satan won't touch the milk - it must be too cold for him too.
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But, I just found it too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter.
very
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Of course, I had never walked in snow before, and I found that it made my feet very cold .
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After a year, the igloo-shaped stadium has cost the citizens $ 20 million in very cold cash.
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There was not a lot of the ship left to see and it was very cold , below zero in fact.
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The sky was leaden and it was very cold .
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We all know how bitterly cold it is now outside; it is not very cold here, of course.
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It is very cold in here.
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He was cold , very cold despite the hothouse temperature of the atrium.
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If the temperature of the air is very , very cold , salt is not effective in melting ice.
■ NOUN
air
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When he entered the kitchen, bringing a great gust of cold air with him, he was all smiles.
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By Saturday morning, cold air had spread over the region, turning the snowpack bulletproof.
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It had to be the cold air and the bright lights against the darkness.
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The air should keep moving, with cold air continuously moving in.
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It is pungent in the still, cold air .
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Behind her lay a blanket of cold air as icy snouts nuzzled the nape of her neck.
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Those examined by Kanwisher simply froze when exposed to extremely cold air .
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We gaze until the cold air makes our shivering unstoppable.
blood
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The Kashmiri police say he was taken into custody as a suspect, tortured and shot in cold blood .
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And I know of men who claim that they could murder in anger but never in cold blood .
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A deed planned in cold blood may appear very different to the perpetrator if he ever gets round to carrying it out.
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They hunted Pedro down like an animal and murdered him in cold blood .
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But was it necessary to kill my men in cold blood ?
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Mrs Heron was murdered in cold blood in a crime which to date has appeared to have no motive.
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This is cold blood , Nigel.
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But the temptations of the Flesh were different: they could not be dealt with in cold blood .
comfort
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But this opposition misleads; charisma is cold comfort without expert management.
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Precedent, however, suggests that his comments will offer only cold comfort to Mr Jiang and Mr Li.
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Brussels brings cold comfort to sheep farmers.
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It's cold comfort , of course, when there isn't much of a market to have a share of.
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It is actually much easier than appearances would suggest - cold comfort when it looks impossible!
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Mellor's self-styled heroics were cold comfort for his team leader, John Major.
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It was cold comfort , all right.
day
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Maybe it's because my two Toy Poodles were horribly upset one cold day .
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Even on a cold day , the old man could break into a sweat if he got beyond a full minute.
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Their departure was hastened by an abnormally cold winter: one shudderingly cold day succeeded another.
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It was a cold day , but a hazy sun kept breaking through.
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It was a cold day , after all.
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Coming into it was like coming home on a bitter cold day to a bright, leaping fire.
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Both were winter occupations and helped keep you warm on a cold day .
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One of his favourite cakes was a sticky gingerbread which she made frequently in the cold days of winter.
front
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Where the cold front of winter can be a killer.
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Another cold front passed through the north state Monday night and early Tuesday, chilling the region with November-like temperatures.
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Never risk parking out overnight without checking the weather forecast for a strong wind warning or the approach of a cold front .
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Forecasters are banking on a cold front to clear cloudy conditions.
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But all that was some months ago and she had a cold front since for her hefty swinging colleague.
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Clearing conditions were forecast behind the cold front that dragged low clouds through Central Florida early Friday.
fusion
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The cold fusion controversy provides a vivid illustration.
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Fleischmann and Pons thought that they could achieve cold fusion by another route.
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That is what happened when the news of cold fusion erupted.
light
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Then they unrolled as a silver-white fleece, under the silent cold light of the moon.
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Through the frosted window blazed the cold light of winter morning; sidelight, the most harsh.
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Had he changed his mind about her in the cold light of morning?
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In the cold light of dawn, of course, it was easy to analyse the evening.
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In the cold light of day it all seemed so ridiculous.
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Yet enchantment it was, he knew, by the cold light of dawn.
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Alone with the glass under the cold light .
night
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The long car ride through the cold night woods flowed back into his mind.
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Plus it warms up rapidly on a bitter cold night .
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Everyone else had gone back out into the cold night air, except her three companions and the proprietor.
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A cold night when all you have is your pride.
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When the door opened a great smell of sweat and leather and stale cigar smoke rushed into the cold night air.
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We were breathing fogs in the cold night air.
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It hadn't been such a cold night , what had happened?
outside
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It was very cold outside , and both had only night clothes on.
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But the catch is that heat pumps work best when it is not real cold outside .
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The passengers came straggling back shedding overcoats and saying it was cold outside , and again the dining car filled up.
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It is kept very warm - a real relief from the biting cold outside - and suffuses a strong feeling of tranquillity.
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It was winter, bitterly cold outside .
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The 45-minute ecumenical memorial service was relayed by loudspeakers to a further 200 huddled in the cold outside .
shoulder
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Giving the cold shoulder to his usual tipple, Ian Knight raises his coffee cup to Drinkwise Day.
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Banishment was better than this cold shoulder .
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A declaration of love, or the cold shoulder .
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Then from then on, we were treated with an absolute cold shoulder , and no one would speak to us.
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So they have given girlfriends the cold shoulder .
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Rachaela had turned on Ruth, not just the habitual cold shoulder , but with a firework of dislike and alienation.
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She was sure that at some point she'd given some one the cold shoulder and hurt them badly without noticing.
shower
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So she jumped under the cold shower every morning.
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He put water on to boil and took a cold shower .
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In the morning, when you get up, take a cold shower .
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Their appearance interrupts the mood established by the preceding poems like a cold shower on a hot, muggy day.
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I took a cold shower and changed my clothes.
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Therefore hot and cold showers , arguments, and exercise are not good preludes to helping you get to sleep.
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My privations were few-cold showers , and electricity for only four hours each day.
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But then I must have a cold shower .
snap
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Despite the cold snap , a white Christmas was an unlikely prospect for most people.
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Moreover, demand for heating oil did not meet expectations during the cold snaps over the last two months.
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The warming phase was interrupted by a cold snap in which the first flip from warm to cool took only three years.
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Sometimes, these cold snaps and sudden snows move down towards the tropical South.
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They seemed to be talking about the recent cold snap .
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A bout of selling on the stock exchange, perhaps, or a cold snap that reopens the fuel price issue.
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A week into April it snowed deeply, half-thawed, and froze in a cold snap .
stone
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But my spine seemed to turn to cold stone when I saw two other groups converging on the scene of combat.
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Placing one hand on the cold stone wall for guidance, she plunged forward.
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He knew the feel of every cold stone step on the wide staircase leading down to the main hall.
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Dark cold stone loomed over him on both sides, blinding him.
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The cold stone whispered to her.
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I started up the cold stone steps to the gallery.
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He seemed to be as much part of it as the cold stone floor he was standing on.
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He managed to half-turn and his hand grasped at the cold stone .
storage
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Much depends on whether Mayor Brown decides to take his campaign promise out of cold storage .
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As might be expected this is accelerated by heat, making cold storage essential.
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I can hear them rumble into cold storage down the coal chute.
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He aims to please even if it means putting his principles in cold storage and his policies in the mixer.
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Like the political career of the man who envisioned it, the satellite may face a prolonged period in cold storage .
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The project went into cold storage , periodically resurfacing over the next six years only to sink once more.
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Or will we always keep our dreams in cold storage ?
sweat
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A fine cold sweat dampened her face and neck.
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The pulse steadied, the cold sweats stopped.
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Carol was dying, and he cried out in his sleep and sat up trembling with cold sweats in the heat.
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I was bathed in a cold sweat .
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He crouched in a cold sweat as the black Lab scratched at the door; growling.
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Sweats about the head on the least exertion, covered with cold sweat.
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Such a nightmare was enough to make even the most fearless security officer break out in a cold sweat .
tap
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She ran the water out of the basin and held her wrists under the cold tap until they were numb.
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Add cold tap water to cover the ingredients by 1 inch.
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The cold tap dripped into the stone sink at long, regular intervals.
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But as she washed her breakfast cup and saucer and rinsed them meticulously under the cold tap , she was anxious.
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Great idea: before grating orange or lemon peel, run the grater under the cold tap to prevent sticking.
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Place the rice in a colander and rinse well under the cold tap until the residue salt has been washed away.
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Water shot boiling from the cold taps .
war
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It is only a year since the cold war ended.
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That spread has been levitating in the stratosphere since the end of the cold war .
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And the cold war procedures, routines and language sprang back into action.
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There was, of course, already a thriving managerial class-particularly in East Asiayears before the cold war ended.
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The trend toward globalisation can also be traced to the Nixon administration's modifications of the political economy of the cold war .
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Since the end of the cold war there has been no one to fund conflicts in the Middle East.
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Masked by the cold war , it has in practice fulfilled that function for a long time.
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The victors of the cold war have established various social-political cultures.
water
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At the sink I wash my face with cold water , but I don't feel any better.
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Soak rist in cold water to numb the pain.
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He poured cans of cold water over her.
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Cover with cold water and refrigerate for 3 days, changing the water each day.
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He moved slowly, like a tired man wading through cold water .
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I shaved with cold water and often cut myself.
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He rinsed his teeth; a flashy set, a lot of gold, cold water .
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Instead, it sent cold water from the bottom of lake into the river via outlet pipes, bypassing the turbines.
weather
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Spiders may be found at most times of the year except during the coldest weather .
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Short trips in cold weather often do not put back as much charge as was lost starting the car.
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She responded, not laughing but sucking in her cheeks like a man blowing on to his hands in cold weather .
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In places where there is cold weather in the winter, the streets often become covered with ice and snow.
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Meraklon and fibrepile linings can be used to upgrade a bag in cold weather .
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While the alpine end of the sport needs only cold weather to produce skiable terrain, cross-country must have snow.
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Even this cold weather can not quell it.
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Also, some of our forces were rather obviously being fitted out for cold weather .
wind
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He stared at the ice-covered ground and half listened to the cold wind moaning gently amongst the trees.
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Miguel stood by the window where the gusts of cold wind hit him in throbbing drafts.
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Stake large specimens and protect the young plants from cold winds until growing steadily.
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The first cold winds rattled the windowpane, and I had made it just in time.
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Greenhouse roofs rippled from salmon to garnet with the cold winds of sunset.
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He stood there, hoping the cold wind would bring sensation back to his rum-numbed body.
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Marion was sitting in the sun, her back to the hut that sheltered her from the cold wind .
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Topside, the snow softened the air and a cold wind spits flakes through an open window on the bridge.
winter
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Well, one cold winter day an old woman came to the mill with a bag of corn to be ground.
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Legend has it that a poor couple gave him shelter one cold winter night.
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In general, the mountain areas of the Auvergne experience a much colder winter climate with a long period of Permanent snow.
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This is a tender plant, appropriate for Zone 9 and Zone 10 gardens, so protect it during cold winters .
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This the family chose to do one cold winter day.
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It was a bitterly cold winter with thick snow; both sides were bogged down in the Apennines from December to April.
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We might be in for a long, cold winter .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(give sb/get) the cold shoulder
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A declaration of love, or the cold shoulder.
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Giving the cold shoulder to his usual tipple, Ian Knight raises his coffee cup to Drinkwise Day.
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She was sure that at some point she'd given some one the cold shoulder and hurt them badly without noticing.
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So they have given girlfriends the cold shoulder.
a (cold) sweat
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But just watch them explore picture books and the bookseller breaks into a cold sweat .
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By the time the glasses were finally filled, Sam was in a cold sweat .
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He crouched in a cold sweat as the black Lab scratched at the door; growling.
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I don't know how or why it worked, but I stopped waking up in a cold sweat .
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I spent the next week and a half in a cold sweat .
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I was bathed in a cold sweat .
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Such a nightmare was enough to make even the most fearless security officer break out in a cold sweat .
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The thought of it brought him out in a cold sweat as he ran desperately on.
bitterly cold
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He wrote that it was not as he had pictured it as the weather was bitterly cold and wet with some snow.
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I wasn't annoyed except that it was bitterly cold, freezing.
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It is bitterly cold outside today, but probably not cold enough to trigger the payments.
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It was bitterly cold and it was raining.
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It was a Friday and bitterly cold.
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On the bitterly cold morning of Sunday 13 November 1715 the two armies were woken respectively by bagpipes and trumpets.
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We all know how bitterly cold it is now outside; it is not very cold here, of course.
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When morning came, bitterly cold and still dark, she had made up her mind.
blow hot and cold
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I can't tell what he wants - he keeps blowing hot and cold.
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In our dealings with the police we have found that they can blow hot and cold. Sometimes they are keen to have media help in solving a crime, other times they are more reluctant.
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Some of these young officers blow hot and cold.
cold fish
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Fancy standing back to the North Sea for ten hours or more handling cold fish !
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I know people thought I was a real cold fish , but what could I do?
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Lord Halifax was a cold fish , a man of steely rectitude, a religious man.
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They think we are cold fish and sloppy in our appearance.
cold/small comfort
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The business won't go bankrupt, but that's cold comfort to the 15 people who lost their jobs.
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But this opposition misleads; charisma is cold comfort without expert management.
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Erratic hot winds kept the air thick with dust, and the fan gave small comfort to the feverish, aching children.
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Now, even these small comforts must be questioned.
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Perhaps it was ready? Small comfort , through ten guilt-ridden days.
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Precedent, however, suggests that his comments will offer only cold comfort to Mr Jiang and Mr Li.
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Rosy statistics on aggregate food production offer small comfort to nations that can not afford a seat at the banquet.
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The survival of slimmed-down companies is small comfort for people made redundant.
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They could explore the area, learn its resources and contrive small comforts in their rooms.
ever so cold/wet/nice etc
feel the cold/heat
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But this sector was the first to feel the heat of intense competition and spiralling development costs.
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He could feel the heat as he entered.
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He got up and wobbled, wiping blindly at his wet face, not even feeling the cold.
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He must have been feeling the heat with all that weight to carry about, but he looked quite cheerful and relaxed.
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I felt the heat hit my face as I stared through the opening with narrowed eyes.
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Meanwhile, several small fire districts in San Diego County are feeling the heat from Proposition 218.
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You can feel the cold winds whipping across the barren island of Smuttynose as Maren relates her disturbing story.
hotter/colder/better etc than ever
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And that incentive was increased when they got personal recognition and satisfaction from doing it better than ever before.
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He says the new films are better than ever .
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Organised by the Alton and District Arts Council, the week promises to be better than ever .
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The moviemaking machine that Walt Disney created sixty years ago is working better than ever today.
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The National Health Service is now better than ever .
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The opportunities now are better than ever .
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This year's attractions are bigger and better than ever , with events running from Tuesday to Saturday.
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Watermen talked about their catches so far this year, which they said have been better than ever .
in cold blood
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He murdered the old man in cold blood .
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The killers hunted Pedro down like an animal and murdered him in cold blood .
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A deed planned in cold blood may appear very different to the perpetrator if he ever gets round to carrying it out.
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And I know of men who claim that they could murder in anger but never in cold blood .
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But the temptations of the Flesh were different: they could not be dealt with in cold blood .
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But was it necessary to kill my men in cold blood ?
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Mrs Heron was murdered in cold blood in a crime which to date has appeared to have no motive.
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The Kashmiri police say he was taken into custody as a suspect, tortured and shot in cold blood .
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They hunted Pedro down like an animal and murdered him in cold blood .
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They would have been murdered in cold blood .
make sb's blood run cold
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But whenever she passed the wood the tales rushed back into her mind and made her blood run cold.
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Ex-inmate Tony Cohla told yesterday how the thought of ever returning to Ashworth makes his blood run cold.
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He said their evidence had made his blood run cold.
pour cold water over/on sth
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Mieno is pouring cold water on the report before she's even seen it.
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Arsenal were in the final, but Chapman poured cold water on hopes for the Double.
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Clarisa picked him up and we poured cold water over his hand.
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He started to pour cold water over me, inpart to staunch the blood, inpart to revive me.
put sth in cold storage
the Cold War
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However, the cold war is over looked.
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I do not want to suggest that Stalin had nothing to do with the origins of the cold war.
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Its front-line position in the Cold War era was of no importance by 1991.
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Now the Cold War is over.
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These policies also served to institutionalise the Cold War.
unseasonably warm/cold/hot etc
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Harvesting began early in Bordeaux as well, due to unseasonably warm weather.
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It was mid-summer, and unseasonably warm for Glasgow.
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The cherry tree was coming into blossom, encouraged by the unseasonably warm sunshine.
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The mid-afternoon sun was still unseasonably warm, and there were children bathing in the sea.
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The night being unseasonably warm, most of the windows were wide open.
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The spring day was unseasonably warm, and after two hour's tuition she went into the clubhouse.
you'll catch your death (of cold)
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Don't go out without a coat! You'll catch your death of cold!
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"He has abused his position," a cold and angry protester said.
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a cold January evening
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a cold stone floor
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a cold , clear night
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a cold , pragmatic decision
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By the time I got off the phone, my coffee was stone cold .
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Come and sit by the fire. You look cold .
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Come eat your dinner before it gets cold .
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Dad, I'm cold . Can I put the heater on?
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He waited an hour for the train on a cold platform.
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He woke up in the middle of the night feeling cold .
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His manner all evening was cold and unfriendly.
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How about a nice cold beer?
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I'd hate to live somewhere where it's always cold .
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I love being in a warm bed in a cold room.
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I think we'll just have a cold buffet.
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I want something cold like an ice cream bar.
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I wanted to swim, but the water was too cold .
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It's so cold . I wish I was back home in Morocco.
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It gets really cold here at night.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Brewing Clean the white plastic brewing bucket with the sterilising fluid and rinse it thoroughly with cold water.
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I thought you were supposed to get cold chills on your right leg.
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It was a very professional, cold time.
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The first cold winds rattled the windowpane, and I had made it just in time.
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You aren't the cold woman you're pretending to be!
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
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He caught a bad cold and, thinking that the disease had returned, took his life.
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On Sunday, she is nursing a bad cold .
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He had a bad cold and was shivering inside his dressing gown.
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Q: My 10-year old developed a bad cold with fever and a hard cough last week.
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He developed a bad cold and had to stay in bed much of the time.
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Most will never know for sure if what they have is mild flu or a bad cold .
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If people have a bad cold , the nasal cavity gets blocked up and so they can not say the sounds properly.
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Then two more girls in the family, ages two and twelve, suffered bad colds .
bitter
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Nothing for certain but the dark weather and the bitter cold .
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Mormons sang and danced to fight off the bitter cold of Iowa in winter.
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I got dressed quickly in the bitter cold of the room, and washed when I could.
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Hunger and the bitter cold would have reduced bird numbers and driven species to flock in the open fields.
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When she emerged into the car park the bitter cold enveloped her insidiously; it had been so much milder in Keyhole.
extreme
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Human problems in extreme cold are both physiological and environmental.
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Insects that winter on land, under snow, among rocks and vegetation or in soil are similarly exposed to extreme cold .
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More extreme cold is tiresome as well as dangerous.
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It is effective over a wide temperature range although lighting may be difficult in extreme cold .
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The last few years have seen widespread damage to homes through storms, floods, extreme cold and subsidence caused by drought.
freezing
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It was freezing cold in all the rooms.
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It was cascading rain and freezing cold .
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It was freezing cold and we didn't go inside anywhere.
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Then, in the freezing cold of London in February 1969, his feet swelled up.
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In the freezing cold and pitch dark, families were driven to clinging to the roof.
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We stayed in a frontier hotel about 6,000 feet up, in a night of freezing cold .
heavy
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Are they like heavy colds - something unpleasant but best ignored as they will soon go away?
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In babies and young children, the symptoms can be confused with a heavy cold .
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Sea colour of a heavy cold .
hot
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Does your relationship run hot and cold ?
icy
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She found she was shivering as if she were icy cold .
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Paul D felt icy cold in the place Sethe had been before Beloved came.
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My chest felt icy cold and I had difficulty in breathing.
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The next day was icy cold .
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It seemed to her that her heart had been crushed in metal hands, icy cold and shining.
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Her sharp nose was icy cold and her face wet with rain.
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Jim shuddered, and not from the icy cold which now knotted his every muscle.
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Winter was exceptionally hard: icy cold and damp, all life arrested.
intense
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The intense cold radiating from the weapon will slay anyone it cuts.
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As her subjects prepared for action, she encountered and noted the physical hardships that prevailed, notably the intense cold .
■ NOUN
ice
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To him, it must have seemed ice cold , indifferent.
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Violent thirst for ice cold , and refreshing drinks; dry mouth and throat.
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The food is hearty, and the Schnapps ice cold .
winter
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Her lips moved constantly and her pale body was damp with perspiration, even though the room was winter cold .
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I sometimes picture to myself both you and Mrs. Mitchell suffering from the winter colds and fogs.
■ VERB
catch
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He caught a bad cold and, thinking that the disease had returned, took his life.
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He had enjoyed himself by our fire, but had caught a tremendous cold as soon as he left the mountains.
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After addressing a public meeting in support of extending the franchise to agricultural workers he had caught a severe cold .
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If Match sneezes, Ankh-Morpork catches a cold .
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When he started to tremble, he figured this was the best way to catch a cold .
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Then she had caught a very nasty cold which would not budge.
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I may be catching a cold .
get
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It's a wicked Sin to let good food get cold .
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Going on vacation is a lot like getting a cold .
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You're not getting a cold are you, darling?
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The walk to the town centre is long enough to invigorate me and short enough to avoid getting miserable from the cold .
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Then suddenly I get all cold , and I have to jump around a bit to get warm.
shiver
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They arrived back at Chepstow Villas just before nine, shivering from the cold .
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My hand hurt just as much and now I was shivering with cold .
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My skinny body shivered in the cold of the basement pool.
suffer
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I sometimes picture to myself both you and Mrs. Mitchell suffering from the winter colds and fogs.
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At the time, the Kremlin said Yeltsin was suffering merely from a cold .
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Then two more girls in the family, ages two and twelve, suffered bad colds .
turn
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Autumn became winter and it turned steely cold .
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His throat was a bit sore anyway, and with luck it might turn into a cold .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(give sb/get) the cold shoulder
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A declaration of love, or the cold shoulder.
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Giving the cold shoulder to his usual tipple, Ian Knight raises his coffee cup to Drinkwise Day.
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She was sure that at some point she'd given some one the cold shoulder and hurt them badly without noticing.
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So they have given girlfriends the cold shoulder.
a (cold) sweat
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But just watch them explore picture books and the bookseller breaks into a cold sweat .
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By the time the glasses were finally filled, Sam was in a cold sweat .
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He crouched in a cold sweat as the black Lab scratched at the door; growling.
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I don't know how or why it worked, but I stopped waking up in a cold sweat .
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I spent the next week and a half in a cold sweat .
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I was bathed in a cold sweat .
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Such a nightmare was enough to make even the most fearless security officer break out in a cold sweat .
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The thought of it brought him out in a cold sweat as he ran desperately on.
bitterly cold
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He wrote that it was not as he had pictured it as the weather was bitterly cold and wet with some snow.
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I wasn't annoyed except that it was bitterly cold, freezing.
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It is bitterly cold outside today, but probably not cold enough to trigger the payments.
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It was bitterly cold and it was raining.
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It was a Friday and bitterly cold.
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On the bitterly cold morning of Sunday 13 November 1715 the two armies were woken respectively by bagpipes and trumpets.
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We all know how bitterly cold it is now outside; it is not very cold here, of course.
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When morning came, bitterly cold and still dark, she had made up her mind.
blow hot and cold
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I can't tell what he wants - he keeps blowing hot and cold.
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In our dealings with the police we have found that they can blow hot and cold. Sometimes they are keen to have media help in solving a crime, other times they are more reluctant.
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Some of these young officers blow hot and cold.
blow/go hot and cold
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Paula was going hot and cold by now.
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She went hot and cold, dizzy with confusion.
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Some of these young officers blow hot and cold.
blue with cold
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Ben, naked except for the strait-jacket, and blue with cold, was heaving and struggling and bellowing.
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Doug emerges from the cabin looking blue with cold.
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Gerda approached Kay, who was blue with cold but oblivious to his predicament because of the ice in his heart.
cold fish
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Fancy standing back to the North Sea for ten hours or more handling cold fish !
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I know people thought I was a real cold fish , but what could I do?
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Lord Halifax was a cold fish , a man of steely rectitude, a religious man.
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They think we are cold fish and sloppy in our appearance.
cold/small comfort
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The business won't go bankrupt, but that's cold comfort to the 15 people who lost their jobs.
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But this opposition misleads; charisma is cold comfort without expert management.
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Erratic hot winds kept the air thick with dust, and the fan gave small comfort to the feverish, aching children.
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Now, even these small comforts must be questioned.
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Perhaps it was ready? Small comfort , through ten guilt-ridden days.
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Precedent, however, suggests that his comments will offer only cold comfort to Mr Jiang and Mr Li.
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Rosy statistics on aggregate food production offer small comfort to nations that can not afford a seat at the banquet.
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The survival of slimmed-down companies is small comfort for people made redundant.
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They could explore the area, learn its resources and contrive small comforts in their rooms.
ever so cold/wet/nice etc
feel the cold/heat
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But this sector was the first to feel the heat of intense competition and spiralling development costs.
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He could feel the heat as he entered.
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He got up and wobbled, wiping blindly at his wet face, not even feeling the cold.
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He must have been feeling the heat with all that weight to carry about, but he looked quite cheerful and relaxed.
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I felt the heat hit my face as I stared through the opening with narrowed eyes.
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Meanwhile, several small fire districts in San Diego County are feeling the heat from Proposition 218.
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You can feel the cold winds whipping across the barren island of Smuttynose as Maren relates her disturbing story.
go hot and cold
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Paula was going hot and cold by now.
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She went hot and cold, dizzy with confusion.
hotter/colder/better etc than ever
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And that incentive was increased when they got personal recognition and satisfaction from doing it better than ever before.
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He says the new films are better than ever .
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Organised by the Alton and District Arts Council, the week promises to be better than ever .
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The moviemaking machine that Walt Disney created sixty years ago is working better than ever today.
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The National Health Service is now better than ever .
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The opportunities now are better than ever .
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This year's attractions are bigger and better than ever , with events running from Tuesday to Saturday.
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Watermen talked about their catches so far this year, which they said have been better than ever .
in cold blood
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He murdered the old man in cold blood .
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The killers hunted Pedro down like an animal and murdered him in cold blood .
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A deed planned in cold blood may appear very different to the perpetrator if he ever gets round to carrying it out.
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And I know of men who claim that they could murder in anger but never in cold blood .
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But the temptations of the Flesh were different: they could not be dealt with in cold blood .
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But was it necessary to kill my men in cold blood ?
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Mrs Heron was murdered in cold blood in a crime which to date has appeared to have no motive.
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The Kashmiri police say he was taken into custody as a suspect, tortured and shot in cold blood .
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They hunted Pedro down like an animal and murdered him in cold blood .
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They would have been murdered in cold blood .
make sb's blood run cold
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But whenever she passed the wood the tales rushed back into her mind and made her blood run cold.
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Ex-inmate Tony Cohla told yesterday how the thought of ever returning to Ashworth makes his blood run cold.
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He said their evidence had made his blood run cold.
merciless heat/cold/wind etc
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During the merciless heat of noon one of the frailer females collapsed, far from any possible shelter.
pour cold water over/on sth
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Mieno is pouring cold water on the report before she's even seen it.
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Arsenal were in the final, but Chapman poured cold water on hopes for the Double.
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Clarisa picked him up and we poured cold water over his hand.
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He started to pour cold water over me, inpart to staunch the blood, inpart to revive me.
put sth in cold storage
stupid with cold/sleep/shock etc
the Cold War
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However, the cold war is over looked.
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I do not want to suggest that Stalin had nothing to do with the origins of the cold war.
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Its front-line position in the Cold War era was of no importance by 1991.
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Now the Cold War is over.
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These policies also served to institutionalise the Cold War.
unseasonably warm/cold/hot etc
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Harvesting began early in Bordeaux as well, due to unseasonably warm weather.
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It was mid-summer, and unseasonably warm for Glasgow.
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The cherry tree was coming into blossom, encouraged by the unseasonably warm sunshine.
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The mid-afternoon sun was still unseasonably warm, and there were children bathing in the sea.
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The night being unseasonably warm, most of the windows were wide open.
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The spring day was unseasonably warm, and after two hour's tuition she went into the clubhouse.
you'll catch your death (of cold)
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Don't go out without a coat! You'll catch your death of cold!
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Come in out of the cold .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After addressing a public meeting in support of extending the franchise to agricultural workers he had caught a severe cold .
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Going on vacation is a lot like getting a cold .
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Having a parched nose and throat may lower resistance to colds, croup, sinusitis and respiratory problems.
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The cold pressed into his rib cage.
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The nighttime cold had a new bite.
III. adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He looked at me coldly, but said nothing.
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Judy stopped cold , and waited for the laughter to finish.
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The woman coldly told us to mind our own business.