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cold comfort
noun
slight or negligible comfort; scarce consolation.
Origin:
1565–75
1565–75
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Cold comfort
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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cold comfort
Slight or no consolation. For example, He can't lend us his canoe but will tell us where to rent one
that's cold comfort. The adjective cold was being applied to comfort in this sense by the early 1300s, and Shakespeare used the idiom numerous times.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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