stone-cold

But a stone-cold death threat to my cell phone — that was a new one.

A Female Writer’s New Milestone: Her First Death Threat

Annie Gaus

December 1, 2014

The last two Wall Street clients Caine worked with were both “stone-cold alcoholics” in their 40s.

Live-in Sober Coaches Offer Wealthy Expensive New Way to Stay Clean

Eliza Shapiro

March 22, 2013

There was stone-cold silence from the dozen other assembled Democrats—a reaction that Lieberman found “very troubling.”

Joe Lieberman’s Slow-Motion Divorce From the Democratic Party

Howard Kurtz

July 18, 2012

There was a kind of stone-cold chill in the air which made us shiver.

At breakfast I had occasion to say that the eggs were stone-cold, and Eliza contradicted me.

There was no gleam of life, not even in his stone-cold eyes.

What you can't be stone-cold sure of to-morrow you drive a nail in to-day.

They could do nothing but talk and talk and ask questions; and I had waffles, too, and they got stone-cold.