cold spot

noun

, Physiology.

cold spot

First recorded in 1890–95

The Rongbuk Monastery lies at a height of 16,500 feet, and is an unpleasantly cold spot.

Perfection is a cold spot on top of a mountain, and nobody ever climbed there.

Returned to the turnpike house, a cold spot upon a common, black cattle feeding close to the door.

When a cold spot is noted, go ashore and dig a few feet back from the water's edge.

A cold spot with a handful of Christians, bearing their testimony alone out on the margin of our field of work.

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