cold as a witch's teat
Freezing beyond measure
Cold as a witch's teat is a vivid expression for extremely cold, whether describing weather, objects, or locations.
The phrase draws on folk beliefs that witches were supernaturally cold-blooded, their bodies lacking normal human warmth.
It belongs to a family of colorful temperature comparisons that substitute for plain words like freezing or frigid.
It's cold as a witch's teat out there—wear your heavy coat.
- shiverInvoluntary trembling sensation
- sleetPartly frozen precipitation
- icyFrozen or unfriendly
- ice coldExtremely chilled, near freezing
- frostbiteFreezing of body tissue
freezing · wind · frigid · gooseflesh · bitter · glacial · hoarfrost · hag · arctic · dead of winter · cold snap · below zero · brass monkey · snow · windchill · cauldron · hex · sting
cold as a witch's teathot as hell
Extremely, intensely warm
hot as Hades · scorching · sweltering · boiling hot · blistering
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