Winter Phrases

Phrases

• 50 Words for Snow (Kate Bush song)
• An Indian summer
• An R in the month
• Appalachian Spring (Aaron Copland musical score)
• Arab Spring
• As cold as a well digger's arse
• As cold as a witch's tit
• As cold as any stone
• As cold as blue blazes
• As cold as charity
• As cold as ice
• As pure as the driven snow
• As white as snow
• Blanket of snow
• Blow hot and cold
• Break out in a cold sweat
• Catch a cold
• Catch your death of cold
• City summer
• Closed season
• Cold Cold Heart (Hank Williams song)
• Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons book)
• Cold Mountain (Jude Law / Renee Zellweger / Nicole Kidman movie)
• Cold Turkey (John Lennon song)
• Cold calling
• Cold comfort
• Cold day in Hell
• Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
• Cold feet
• Cold fish
• Cold hands warm heart
• Cold light of day
• Cold meat
• Cold shoulder
• Cold sober
• Cold sweat
• Cold turkey
• Come in from the cold
• Come out in a cold sweat
• Dead of winter
• Depths of winter
• Does it make sense to jump out of a warm bed into a cold cereal? (Quaker Oats advertising slogan)
• Don't put a cold in your pocket! - Use Kleenex Tissues (Kleenex Tissues advertising slogan)
• Feed a cold and starve a fever
• For everything there is a season
• Hard, cold cash
• High season (the most popular time to visit a resort or attraction - when prices are highest)
• His beard was as white as snow
• Hot n Cold (Katy Perry song)
• Ice cold
• In The Bleak Midwinter (Christmas Carol title)
• In a cold sweat
• In cold blood
• In cold storage
• In season
• Indian summer
• It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen (the opening line of Nineteen Eighty-Four)
• It was a cold and frosty morning
• It's too cold to snow
• Last of the Summer Wine
• Leave out in the cold
• Leave someone cold
• Left out in the cold

• Let It Snow (Sammy Cahn song recorded by Sinatra and Dean Martin)
• Mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow (line from nursery rhyme)
• My blood ran cold
• No spring chicken
• Now is the winter of our discontent
• Nuclear autumn
• Nuclear winter
• Off season
• One swallow doesn't make a summer
• Open season
• Out cold
• Out in the cold
• Party season
• Potatoes in the mould (Cockney rhyming slang for cold)
• Pour cold water on
• Pure life (Nestle Aberfoyle Natural Spring Water advertising slogan)
• Revenge is a dish best served cold
• School's out for summer
• Season of goodwill
• Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness (from a poem by Keats)
• Seasonal affected disorder
• Selling snow to Eskimos
• Silly season
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney cartoon movie)
• Snow blindness
• Snow bunny
• Snow job
• Snowed up
• Spring clean
• Spring fling
• Spring forward, Fall back
• Spring in your step
• Spring into action
• Spring into summer
• Spring is in the air
• Spring to mind
• Spring to your defence
• Starve a cold, feed a fever
• Stone cold sober
• Suddenly Last Summer (Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• Summer Loving
• Summer Wind (Frank Sinatra song)
• Summer solstice
• Summer time (the time adopted during the summer in advance of the standard time)
• Take a cold hard look
• Taters (Cockney rhyming slang for cold)
• The Cold War
• The English summer: three fine days and a thunderstorm
• The Imperial Summer Palace (tourist attraction in China)
• The Lion In Winter (Peter O'Toole / Katharine Hepburn movie)
• The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts all on a summer's day (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (John Le Carre novel)
• The Winters Tale
• The festive season
• The glorious twelfth (of August - the start of the British grouse shooting season)
• The height of summer
• The long, hot summer
• Throw cold water on
• To every thing there is a season
• Winter drawers on (old British euphemistic joke)
• Winter of discontent
• Winter warmer