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(pl. noun) - (1) Hard times. The idea of a cold day as a day of misfortunes appears current in Shakespeare's play Timon of Athens (Act I, Scene i). It has lately appeared in the phrase, "It's a cold day when I get left!" --Appleton Morgan's Study in the Warwickshire Dialect, 1900 (2) There'll be cold crowdings if bread gets much dearer. --G.F. Northall's Warwickshire Word-Book, 1896
January 27, 2018