stone cold
See also: stonecold and stone-cold
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edit- Very cold; lacking any semblance of warmth.
- I forgot to turn on the burner under the soup and found it sitting there, still stone cold, twenty minutes later.
- Lacking emotion or compassion.
- a stone-cold killer
- Certain; definite; obvious.
- 2006 November 6, Philip Thornton, “Interest rate rise a 'stone-cold certainty' despite industry plea”, in The Independent[1]:
- "A hike on Thursday looks a stone cold certainty," Howard Archer, chief UK economist at Global Insight, said.
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