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cold as a mackerel

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1. (simile) Very cold (in temperature, emotionally, etc.).
   Synonym: stone cold
   • 1920, Fire Service (Official organ of the Fire Marshals’ Association of North America, かつ Eastern Association of Superintendents of Fire かつ Police Telegraph), 6 March, 1920, p. 7,[1]
     “I tell you, Governor, that in those days they weren’t ashamed to have a little good liquor around to warm the insides of a man weary and as cold as a mackerel from an all night job.”
   • 1964, Seán Ó Faoláin, Vive Moi! Boston: Little, Brown, Chapter 4, p. 61,[2]
     At that raw spring hour, mid-February or early March, the sky would be as beautifully cold as a mackerel, bluish-white at its base, everywhere else a dark bruise-blue except where gas lamps in the streets let in a pale green-whitish-yellow,
   • 1988, Garvin Bushell and Mark Tucker, Jazz from the Beginning, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, Chapter 16, p. 131,[3]
     In some areas our audiences enjoyed the music; in others they were cold as a mackerel.
2. Completely unconscious.
   Synonym: out cold
   • 1942, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, New York: Knopf, 1964, Chapter 27,[4]
     She had just slid forward in a pile in front of the chair, on top of her nice hat. She was as cold as a mackerel.
   • 1961, Walker Percy, The Moviegoer, New York: Knopf, Part 4, p. 136,[5]
     He said: Queenie, I think I’m going to pass out and before I do, I’m going to give you a piece of advice […] and he said quite solemnly: Queenie, always stick to Bach and the early Italians—and passed out cold as a mackerel.

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