stone cold

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stone cold (idiomatic)

  1. Very cold; lacking any semblance of warmth.
    I forgot to turn on the burner under the soup and found it sitting there, still stone cold, twenty minutes later.
  2. Lacking emotion or compassion.
    a stone-cold killer
  3. Certain; definite; obvious.
    • 2006 November 6, Philip Thornton, “Interest rate rise a 'stone-cold certainty' despite industry plea”, in The Independent:
      "A hike on Thursday looks a stone cold certainty," Howard Archer, chief UK economist at Global Insight, said.

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