Idiom-what is the origin

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Hughgd70

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What is the origin of "colder than a witch's ..............
 

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A very cold witch.
 

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If you search you will find a number of possible origins, but they all come down to the same thing - it is ******* cold, so cold that the mercury in the thermometer has frozen.
 
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