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dead of winter

idiom
Meaning

The middle of the winter, characterized by being particularly cold.


Examples
SIMPLE

It is freezing in the dead of winter.

CONTEXTUAL

The pipes in our old house often freeze during the dead of winter.

COMPLEX

The mountain pass remains completely impassable throughout the dead of winter, isolating the small village from the rest of the world until the spring thaw.

Anchors to
Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    beat a dead horse

    To persist or continue far beyond any purpose, interest or reason.

  2. 02

    brown bread

    [Cockney slang]dead

  3. 03

    buy straw hats in winter

    Of stocks, to buy when both demand and price are low, so as to sell when demand and price are high.

  4. 04

    come back from the dead

    To experience a resurgence after one's productive years are assumed to have ended.

  5. 05

    dead 'n' buried

    Contraction of dead and buried.

  6. 06

    dead air

    An unintended interruption in a broadcast during which nothing is transmitted: a silent period on radio or a silent period with no picture on television.

  7. 07

    dead and buried

    Of an issue, moot, passed, irrelevant, forgotten.

  8. 08

    dead asleep

    Sleeping in a deep sleep

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