cold as a witch's tit
Bone-chillingly freezing
Cold as a witch's tit describes something extremely cold, usually weather or a room: It's cold as a witch's tit out there.
The phrase is vulgar but playful, drawing on folklore that imagined witches as cold-blooded or corpse-like.
Variants include colder than a witch's tit and the extended cold as a witch's tit in a brass bra.
- freezing pointTemperature of phase transition
- shiverInvoluntary trembling sensation
- tongue-in-cheekHumorously not meant literally
- figure of speechNonliteral expressive phrase
- hyperboleRhetorical extreme exaggeration
goosebumps · frosty · subzero · dead of winter · nippy · exaggeration · brisk · chill to the bone · absurdity · comic relief · off-color humor · vulgar · caricature · numbness · hag · hypothermia · old hag · broomstick
cold as a witch's tithot as hell
Extremely, intensely warm
boiling hot · scorching · hot as Hades · sweltering · blistering
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