Idiom
dead of winter
Meaning
The middle of the winter, characterized by being particularly cold.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“It is freezing in the dead of winter.”
“The pipes in our old house often freeze during the dead of winter.”
“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.”
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.”
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