stone-cold

stone-cold
adj
Having no warmth; completely cold. - Used to describe things that are better when warm.

The boys who got up late found their breakfast stone-cold.

The furnace went off and the radiators were stone-cold.


Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". . 1997.

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