stone cold

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Completely cold, especially for something that should be hot.

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Examples (10)

  • This soup is stone cold!
  • By the time he got home, his dinner was stone cold.
  • I can't drink this coffee; it's stone cold.
  • Her hands were stone cold even though she was wearing gloves.
  • The abandoned house was empty and stone cold inside.
  • Why is the radiator stone cold? The heating should be on.
  • He woke up shivering, the forgotten cup of tea on his nightstand now stone cold.
  • After hours of waiting in the car, the pizza had gone stone cold.
  • She complained to the waiter that her fries were stone cold.
  • He ran a bath but got distracted, and when he returned the water was stone cold.