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What do you mean by cold comfort?
by thisismyswamp 8y ago
What do you mean by cold comfort?
- lazyasciiart 8y agoIt's a phrase meaning basically "is no comfort".
- cordonbleu 8y agothis reminds me of the "cold shoulder" when someone of ill repute came to dine they would be given the cold shoulder, a gristly fatty hunk of bone and maybe some meat, left unheated and tossed to the not quite welcome guest.
- DyslexicAtheist 8y agointeresting! I had no idea. there are probably hundreds of proverbs which I don't actually know the origin. Must get myself some book on this. It is really a basic knowledge which we happily forget over time.