Sayings For How Cold It Is

[Barmaid]

Emmie's thread had me thinking about sayings for when it's really cold.

I can think of a few, are there any you recall? Interesting how people from different geographical areas describe things.

My only clean one is "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey".

[dannyk13]

"it's cold enough to freeze the b---s off a brass monkey"

[Mamyalynne]

"Taters" - Taters in the mould - Cold.

[Tuvok]

Currently - my office - heating broken to my building at work!!!

They're currently digging down to replace the pipe!

[cleodog]

Freezing your toes off? Or other parts of your anatomy?

[Voltage]

freezing my cods off!

[albaqwerty]

it's baltic or fridgio
(opposite to scorchio, obviously)

I don't want to know where Volty keeps his cods.

[vulcan42]

A friend of mine would say "It's cold enough for two pairs of braces"

[emmie]

brass monkeys out there is the only one that comes to mind..

[Eleena]

^^ LOL ... Some proper old sayings here, hadn't heard of cod or the braces one. Made me chuckle!

[Tuvok]

Perishing.

[emmie]

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/cold-weather-idioms/

[cleodog]

When my dog was alive and in her latter years if I tried to take her out when it was very cold, she would step out of the door, look up at the sky, look at me and seem to say Really? !! Then she would do an about turn and walk back in!

[emmie]

it doesn't show the picture, which is a shame as its really funny....

[anthro-nerd]

n*pples like tictacs...!!!!!!

[Mamyalynne]

Like this one

"Hasn't been this cold since eighteen-hundred-and-froze-to-death"

Few here

http://mentalfloss.com/article/54671/11-obscure-regional-phrases-describe-cold

[jno]

it was originally freezing the tail off a brass monkey.

[emmie]

i have known the word perishing every since i was a small child, can be used in a number of ways, perisher for a naughty child, perishing, freezing cold weather.

[maggiebee]

Perishing - Baltic - Brass Monkey Weather to name but a few I use.

[Robinia]

Nipples like chapel 'at pegs.... :) (Nottingham)

[albaqwerty]

Cleo, our pooch used to do similar, also if it was raining - the rain was my fault.

I have been known to say 'it's a bit nipply out there'