stone-cold
- completely cold
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- (intensifier)stone-cold sober
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Examples from the Web for stone-cold
Contemporary Examples
But a stone-cold death threat to my cell phone — that was a new one.
The last two Wall Street clients Caine worked with were both “stone-cold alcoholics” in their 40s.
There was stone-cold silence from the dozen other assembled Democrats—a reaction that Lieberman found “very troubling.”
Historical Examples
There was a kind of stone-cold chill in the air which made us shiver.
When Life Was YoungC. A. Stephens
At breakfast I had occasion to say that the eggs were stone-cold, and Eliza contradicted me.
ElizaBarry Pain
There was no gleam of life, not even in his stone-cold eyes.
The Double FourE. Phillips Oppenheim
What you can't be stone-cold sure of to-morrow you drive a nail in to-day.
T. TembaromFrances Hodgson Burnett
They could do nothing but talk and talk and ask questions; and I had waffles, too, and they got stone-cold.
T. TembaromFrances Hodgson Burnett