Poll: It's freezing cold.
It's freezing cold. |
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Votes: 481
Comments: 6
Added: November 2006
Comments:
| JJ - 11th December 2006 21:54 |
| It's cerainly not standard, but the meaning is clear and I use it all of the time. |
| kimmikoto - 3rd May 2007 01:54 |
| It's unnecessary to have the 'freezing ' in. It's like saying the fire is burning hot. |
| Cyndi - 8th May 2007 11:21 |
| Here, you need 'freezing' because it could be cold but not always 'freezing cold'. |
| Bryan - 27th February 2008 01:00 |
| I agree that 'freezing' adds meaning, but, once you use it, 'cold' does not. It's never 'freezing hot' or even 'feezing cool' |
| Missie - 15th February 2010 17:33 |
| "It's freezing cold" is a saying, or something that says one thing, but means another. In this case I would think that where it is not a correct sentance, it is acceptable and many people use this saying to describe the cold weather. |
| chris - 5th December 2011 05:34 |
| "freezing" is an intensifier here (it is a specifier of the adjective "cold" -- i.e an adverb). It's like saying "very cold", but more extreme. you could say "It's freezing", which means the same thing, but in this case the word "freezing" is no longer an adverb but an adjective. |
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