Cold as a toad

Posted by Ken Thompson on September 21, 2004

Anyone else ever heard this one? My grandmother used it meaning, roughly, cold & clammy. Am wondering if it's an English phrase, or if she was mixing German with her English -- cold as Tod (cold as Death).

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