Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Deadly cold.
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Examples
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"YOU'RE going to catch your death-a-cold," exclaimed
McTeague 1920
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You'll get your death-a-cold if you stand round soaked like that.
McTeague 1920
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"YOU'RE going to catch your death-a-cold," exclaimed Heise.
McTeague 1899
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You'll get your death-a-cold if you stand round soaked like that.
McTeague 1899
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You'll get your death-a-cold if you stand round soaked like that.
McTeague Frank Norris 1886
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"YOU'RE going to catch your death-a-cold," exclaimed Heise.
McTeague Frank Norris 1886
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Not merely was it the shiver which this pitiless blast brought to her frame (although her feet and hands, especially, had never seemed so death-a-cold as now), but there was a moral sensation, mingling itself with the physical chill, and causing her to shake more in spirit than in body.
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Not merely was it the shiver which this pitiless blast brought to her frame (although her feet and hands, especially, had never seemed so death-a-cold as now), but there was a moral sensation, mingling itself with the physical chill, and causing her to shake more in spirit than in body.
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Not merely was it the shiver which this pitiless blast brought to her frame (although her feet and hands, especially, had never seemed so death-a-cold as now), but there was a moral sensation, mingling itself with the physical chill, and causing her to shake more in spirit than in body.
House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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Yes, I guess I did get caught in the rain, and it ain't your fault I didn't catch my death-a-cold; wouldn't even let me have a nickel for car fare. "
McTeague 1920
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