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cold as a witch's kiss en · ADJ
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(colloquial, not-comparable, qualifier:simile) Very cold.
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:Outside, frost glimmered. November, cold as a witch's kiss. Cold as his heart.
2002, Judith Bowen, Cowboy Country, page 112: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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