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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese mais frio ca neve ("colder than snow", 13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria).
Adjective
máis frío cá neve
- (simile, comparison) cold as ice; very cold
- Synonym: máis frío ca un pao de ferro
1814, Manuel Pardo de Andrade, Aos coruñeses:o labrador, moi contento pensando tiña un tesouro, quedouse mas frio que a neve cando ve chegar [o] señor cura e lle pide o dichoso ferrado pour razon de ofrenda anal- the farmer, who was joyfully thinking that he had a treasure, was left cold as ice when he saw the priest as he came and the later asked for the bushel for the annual offering
References
- “mais frio ca neve” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “máis frío cá neve” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.