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Old 12-Nov-2006, 09:50
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Default Re: weather

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Originally Posted by Tdol View Post
In British English 'freezing cold' is common.
Also just freezing. I think it'd be slightly more common to hear It's freezing out there than It's freezing cold out there.

Also - though perhaps rather dated - perishing.

Also taters (Rhyming slang - 'Taters in the mould').

And, in some dialects, parky .

If the weather's just a bit chilly, you say there's a nip in the air.

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