Cold weather cliches`

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plow hand

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• Dec 15, 2008

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Lets hear some of your cold weather lines- like colder than a well diggers a$$

 

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Cold Beer

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• Dec 15, 2008

• #1

Its so cold I seen a lawyer with his hands in his own pockets.

 

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RayP(MI)

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• Dec 15, 2008

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Colder than a witch's heart. (or other body parts, pick your favorite.)

Freeze the balls off a brass monkey. (allegedly a brass monkey was a pallet to hold cannon balls on old ships, if it got cold enough, it contracted, and cannon balls rolled off. - check with Snopes on this.)

and it was a well digger's KNUCKLES!

 

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RayP(MI)

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• Dec 15, 2008

• #1

Good one!

 

Goose

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• Dec 15, 2008

• #1

Colder than a stainless steel commode in the Antartic.

BTW, you're right, Ray. The expression "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" originated on sailing ships and had nothing to do with human or animal anatomy.

 

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rrlund

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• Dec 15, 2008

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Colder than a nuns...nevermind,I'd better not go there.

 

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rrlund

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• Dec 15, 2008

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Or like W.C. Fields used to say,colder than a mother in laws heart.

 

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Brian in MI

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• Dec 15, 2008

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Cold enough to feel where your short pants leave off.

 

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ScottyHOMeY

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• Dec 15, 2008

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Cold as an ex-wife's hello

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Dec 15, 2008

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Can someone explain the significance of a "well digger's arse/knuckles"? Does it come from when wells were dug by hand?

 

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steveormary

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• Dec 15, 2008

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So cold it take 3 people to put wood in the stove. One to put it in the stove and 2 to bring it in from the wood shed.

steveormary

 

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cj in wisconsin

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• Dec 15, 2008

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Colder than a witches t#t in a cast iron bra.

 

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Walt Davies

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• Dec 15, 2008

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When I was a kid all the local wells were dug by hand, Our well diggers were the spitten images of Laural and Hardy right down to the English accent and derby hats.

I was a teenager before I saw them on TV, always wondered why they dug wells for a living if they were movie stars.

Walt

 

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Jerry/MT

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• Dec 15, 2008

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Colder than a banker's heart!
Colder than hell on stoker's holiday!
Colder than a knot at the North Pole!
Colder than a mother-in-law's kiss!
He was as blue as a whetstone!
As cold as a dead snake!
Cold ennough to make a polar bear hunt cover!

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Dec 15, 2008

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Colder than a well diggers a$$ on Thursday morning.

 

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ebbsspeed

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• Dec 15, 2008

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It's so cold here I propped the refrigerator door open trying to warm up the house.

It's so cold I had to chisel the dog off the fire hydrant.

 

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Mike (WA)

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• Dec 15, 2008

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Colder than Leona Helmsley's gaze.

 

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Mr. Bob

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• Dec 15, 2008

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Uncle Jed used to say, "Cold enough to freeze the balz off a muley buck"
Mr. Bob

 

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Casstuba

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• Dec 15, 2008

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Not about the Cold exactly -
My Great Grandfather used to say "Slicker'n snot on a door knob" for icy conditions
~Brian

 

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GordoSD

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• Dec 15, 2008

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Two guys peeing off a bridge in the winter. First guy, bragging to the second, "Man that water's cold!" Second guys comeback, "Deep too".

Gordo

 

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Coffee Helps

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• Dec 15, 2008

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Heard a guy I worked with in Madison refer to the cold as "the hawk." He said that's what they call it up in Alaska. Since then I've heard a few other people call it "the hawk."
"Bone chiller" also on tv ad.

 

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GordoSD

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• Dec 15, 2008

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It's so cold vacation trips to Alaska are sold out for three months.

Gordo

 

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GordoSD

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• Dec 15, 2008

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It;s so cold instead of swallows returning to San Juan Capistrano, Penguins are replacing them.

Gordo

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Dec 16, 2008

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Overheard on a cold day at the golf course by a worker on the other side of some trees. One woman said to the other; "It's so cold...I almost froze my vacuum cleaner" Lol Dave