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20 de may. de 2016 · Stone cold: Unfeeling, insensible, as in That sad story left her stone cold. This analogy was already used by Shakespeare in Henry V (2:3): “Cold as any stone.” (The American Heritage Idioms Dictionary) Examples: But the stone cold fact is his children still love him, just as much as they love their mother.
6 de jun. de 2019 · 3. As other answerers have noted, "stone-cold" as a modifier means "total or absolute." The longer phrase "stone-cold loser" is not an established idiom in general U.S English, as evidenced by the fact that a Google Ngram search for "stone cold loser" yields too few matches to produce a frequency diagram. Nevertheless the term does show up in ...
22 de nov. de 2014 · 1. As I understand it, you can personify anything, all you have to do is add a human characteristic, so the cold can bite; sting; swim; rush; blow; snap etc. and then you add an adverb: angrily, happily, merrily, evilly, wickedly, cheerfully e.g "The cold snapped angrily at the trees". – Mari-Lou A.
8 de feb. de 2012 · It's true stoned is more often used nowadays for intoxicated by cannabis, but it too was first used of alcohol — originally in compounds such as as stone-drunk, stone-cold. First recorded as a single word in print in Hepcats jive talk dictionary (1945).
15 de jun. de 2021 · derives from the idiomatic use of "cold iron" to denote a bladed weapon, and that the witch-scaring property was not the metal itself but rather the fear of being bloodied. That is: witches dislike iron objects (says Pliny) but also witches dislike being stabbed (says Brewer), thus witches dislike swords.
13 de ene. de 2016 · (Note that, indeed, you could certainly say "he quit heroin stone cold".) With that viewpoint, it's completely natural to say "we undertook the enterprise from a cold turkey start", exactly meaning we jumped in with no preparation, helpful pharmaceuticals, etc. Fascinating question!
20 de ago. de 2016 · I came across this term searching for a halberd indexed in a Russian Medieval and Renaissance Warfare Encyclopedia. "холодное оружие II", literally "cold weapons 2" was a list of historical halberds. "Cold weapons 1" was an index of war hammers. One translation called it "steel weapons" while the couple others were "cold weapons".
4 de mar. de 2021 · "Stone-throwing devil(s)" historically has overwhelmingly been a reference to an actual occurrence in 1682 in New England. According to the New England Historical Society: During the summer of 1682, a stone-throwing devil persecuted a Quaker tavern owner named George Walton in what is now New Castle, N.H.
26 de feb. de 2014 · The case insensitive version has more interesting info: the lower case "cold war" started its decline in 1962 (the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis) and both terms grow considerably starting in 1987 (year of Gorbachev's democratization reforms, Regan's "Tear Down the Wall" speech, and the "Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty), with the title case version growing exponentially from that ...
11 de abr. de 2022 · Dmitry Acemonte. 299 1 5. 2. This doesn't seem a specific idiom, but I would guess it relates to the idea of an insect living under a stone, and the stone is being lifted so he can crawl back under it. The notion of something crawling out from under a stone or living under a rock is a very common metaphor, even if I can't find a good reference ...
