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单词 cold as ice
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(as) cold (also cool, etc.) as ice
P1. In similative phrases, as (as) cold (also cool, etc.) as ice.
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c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 515 (MED) Y wex cold as ise [c1475 Caius colder than the yys].
1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. xxi. sig. h3v In the same place sourde and sprynge other [fountains] that ben as colde as yce.
1580 A. Saker Narbonus ii. 51 Her loue so hot as fire, is now so colde as Yce.
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 137 Be thou as chaste as yce, as pure as snowe, Thou shalt not scape calumny.
1674 C. Cotton tr. B. de Montluc Commentaries iv. 209 My people had made a Cellar in the earth, where the wine and the water was as cool as ice.
1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem ii. 12 His Feet cold as Ice, his Breath hot as a Furnace.
1790 W. Beckford Descr. Acct. Jamaica I. 233 The waters..are as pellucid as crystal, and as cool as ice.
1838 J. H. St. Aubyn Elopement II. viii. 72 Lord Stormont was..quite an Englishman,—quiet, stately, and cold as ice.
1845 W. G. Simms Wigwam & Cabin 1st Ser. 107 My heart as cold as ice, and jumping up and down as scarily as a rabbit's.
1911 ‘H. Payson’ Boy Scouts on Range i. 16 They rose from the table, but Rob, still inwardly raging but outwardly cool as ice, stopped them.
1976 M. H. Kingston Woman Warrior 193 I heard one line sung out into the night air in a woman's voice high and clear as ice.
1988 E. Blyton Mountain of Adventure (rev. ed.) vii. 48 A spring gushed out beside the small wooded patch, as cold as ice.
2012 F. Ray With just One Kiss xvii. 249 Cicely's smile was as cold as ice.
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