stone-cold
adjective
completely cold
adverb
(intensifier)stone-cold sober
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Words nearby stone-cold
stone canal, stonecast, stonecat, stonechat, stone china, stone-cold, stone crab, stonecrop, stonecrop family, stone curlew, stonecutter
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Idioms and Phrases with stone-cold
stone cold
Unfeeling, insensible, as in That sad story left her stone cold. This analogy was already used by Shakespeare in Henry V (2:3): “Cold as any stone.”
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