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What (who) is cold comfort - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Cold Comfort (disambiguation)
cold comfort
poor consolation.
cold comfort
If you say that a slightly encouraging fact or event is cold comfort to someone, you mean that it gives them little or no comfort because their situation is so difficult or unpleasant.
These figures may look good on paper but are cold comfort to the islanders themselves.
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Cold Comfort Farm
ENGLISH NOVEL BY STELLA GIBBONS
I saw something nasty in the woodshed; Flora Poste; Starkadder family; Something nasty in the woodshed; Graceless, Aimless, Feckless, and Pointless; Howling, Sussex; Ada Doom
Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel by English author Stella Gibbons, published in 1932. It parodies the romanticised, sometimes doom-laden accounts of rural life popular at the time, by writers such as Mary Webb.
Examples of use of cold comfort
1. That will be cold comfort for those waiting at Heathrow.
2. It was a warm bath of nostalgia and cold comfort.
3. Saturday February ', 2008 10:46 PM WASHINGTON (AP) – Talk about cold comfort.
4. Richard Ingrams‘s week Pendennis÷ Cold comfort at No 10 Smallweed÷ What‘s in a name?
5. "It was just a rant–and–rave kind of thing." Joseph and Kesa Williams have the cold comfort of clarity.