Idiom
cold snap
Meaning
A short and sudden period of cold weather.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“A cold snap hit the city last night.”
“We were enjoying warm spring days until a cold snap brought frost and freezing winds.”
“The fragile blossoms, fooled by an early thaw, withered overnight when an unexpected cold snap swept across the valley.”
Examples
simple
“A cold snap hit the city last night.”
contextual
“We were enjoying warm spring days until a cold snap brought frost and freezing winds.”
complex
“The fragile blossoms, fooled by an early thaw, withered overnight when an unexpected cold snap swept across the valley.”
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