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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSo how cold is it?
Where I came from it was, "Colder than a well-digger's ass" or "Colder than a witch's ___ (rhymes with "clips" . Here's other regional sayings - I like the one "Colder than a brass toilet seat in the Yukon"
http://mentalfloss.com/article/54671/11-obscure-regional-phrases-describe-cold
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So how cold is it? (Original Post)
packman
Jan 2015
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polly7
(20,582 posts)1. ..................
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polly7
(20,582 posts)4. It's -35C here today, -44C with the wind chill factor.
And snow, lots and lots of it. My furnace hasn't quit for days!
Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)3. Here in Los Angeles it's been below 70 all day. Brrrr...
Some say "colder than a nun's **** on Good Friday", but that's not nice.
I'll admit it's not really that cold here.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)5. I don't know...
but if you have any brass monkeys in the yard, you'd better bring them in.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)6. Not as bad as yesterday.