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- chilled to the bone
chilled to the bone
*chilled to the bone
Fig. very cold. (*Typically: be ~; get ~.) I got chilled to the bone in that snowstorm. The children were chilled to the bone from their swim in the ocean.
chilled to the bone
Also, chilled to the marrow. Extremely or bitterly cold, as in After skiing in the wind for five hours straight, I was chilled to the bone. These hyperboles replaced the earlier idea of one's blood freezing and are more picturesque than the current synonym frozen.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Durham | | ['dʌrəm] | |
AnunciaciÓN | | ah-noon-thyah-THYON (Spanish), ah-noon-syah-SYON (Latin American Spanish) | Spanish |
Fayiz | | - | Arabic |
Cristina | | kree-STEE-nah (Italian, Spanish) | Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian |
Kandake | | - | Biblical, Biblical Greek |
Jaap | | YAH:P | Dutch |