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cold as a mackerel
vs
frigorific
cold as a mackerel
adj
Very cold (in temperature, emotionally, etc.).
Completely unconscious.
frigorific
adj
Causing to chill or cool.
How often have the words
cold as a mackerel
and
frigorific
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
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