cold comfort

Examples (10)

• A drop in the unemployment rate was cold comfort for those without a job.
• The apology was cold comfort to her after all the damage he had caused.
• Knowing that things might get better in a year is cold comfort to someone struggling to pay rent now.
• The fact that they almost won was cold comfort to the defeated team.
• The small profit increase was cold comfort for a company that had expected to break records.
• The judge's words of sympathy were cold comfort to the victim's family, who wanted a harsher sentence.
• Being told the illness isn't fatal is cold comfort when you're in constant pain.
• Finding out he wasn't the only one who failed the exam was cold comfort.
• "At least it's not raining," he said, which was cold comfort as they were completely lost.
• Platitudes about "everything happening for a reason" are often just cold comfort to those who are grieving.