cold comfort
slight or negligible comfort; scarce consolation.
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How to use cold comfort in a sentence
Europe puts out advice on fixing international data transfers that’s cold comfort for FacebookLegal clouds gather over US cloud services, after CJEU ruling
European Parliament amps up pressure on EU-US data flows and GDPR enforcement | Natasha Lomas | May 21, 2021 | TechCrunchFacebook’s EU-US data transfers face their final countdownEurope puts out advice on fixing international data transfers that’s cold comfort for FacebookEurope’s top court strikes down flagship EU-US data transfer mechanism
Facebook loses last-ditch attempt to derail DPC decision on its EU-US data flows | Natasha Lomas | May 14, 2021 | TechCrunchIt may be cold comfort, but that’s a bargain when you consider how many AMG models easily top $100,000.
cold comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons This novel won the literary Prix Femina Étranger.
These Female Contemporaries Weren’t Afraid of Virginia Woolf | Louisa Treger | November 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYet the fact that innovation is a wonderful, exciting thing is cold comfort to the man who feels he has become obsolete.
Millennials Have A Lot of Problems, But Tech Isn't One | Kristen Soltis Anderson | May 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Yet this theoretical resolution is cold comfort to same-sex couples living in the many states that maintain marriage bans.
And if they lose this battle while aiming to win the larger war, it will be cold comfort on the morning of Nov. 7th.
Although phone calls provide cold comfort, the situation of detained journalists remains critical.
You will have heard by now the sad news of your husband's death, and it is but cold comfort to offer you my sincerest sympathy.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie | George Brenton Laurie"Yes, but you have had it with a vengeance; and I doubt not that your apparent contentment is but cold comfort," continued Glenn.
Wild Western Scenes | John Beauchamp JonesDo be reasonable, and listen to reason, though God knows you can be in no mood for such cold comfort!
The Shadow of the Rope | E. W. Hornung"I get a sort of cold comfort from the thought of that city," he said.
The Incredible Honeymoon | E. NesbitThis was cold comfort to Carrie, who was painfully conscious of having been a particularly silly school-girl just then.
A Garland for Girls | Louisa May Alcott
Other Idioms and Phrases with cold comfort
Slight or no consolation. For example, He can't lend us his canoe but will tell us where to rent one—that's cold comfort. The adjective cold was being applied to comfort in this sense by the early 1300s, and Shakespeare used the idiom numerous times.
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