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Old January 20, 2010, 03:38 AM
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It´s freezing cold and ...............
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It's so cold you can freeze your .... off. (You can fill in those dots with your choice of private appendages)
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Here are some colourful/risqué sayings in English. You obviously have to be a bit careful when you say them.
It's cold enough to freeze the tail/balls off a brass monkey
It's as cold as a witch's tit (in a brass bra)

Alternatively, you could just say: It's fffffreezing
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In one of his novels Delibes uses:
"frío como para destetar a buitres"
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Old January 28, 2010, 01:33 AM
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No sabía que los buitres mamaban, para tener que destetarlos. SUpongo que Delibes estaba más puesto en el tema. JAJAJA
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Bueno, yo no sé si Delibes había visto "El Hombre y la Tierra" de Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente (quien era un experto con los halcones, dicho sea de paso, aparte de otras hierbas), pero supongo que usaba "destetar" un tanto irónicamente, y con el sentido que da Moliner, 2 tr. Poner a los hijos en situación en que tienen que valerse por sí solos, sin los cuidados de los padres. Y no en un sentido totalmente literal... aunque como muy bien dices, Robin, quizá Delibes estaba más puesto que nosotros...
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it's so freacking cold [out there]! it's very coloquial?

@laepelba what do you think of this weather? :P This week we are having near -5 to 0 C at the morning, no more than 10 C at the day, and near 4 at the night! The other morning, we were more cold in Buenos Aires than in "Base Marambio" in Antartida
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"It's so freaking cold (out there)..." is definitely very colloquial; it will
also be heard as "It's so frickin' cold...", and both are euphemisms for
the "F" word - but still to be used only in informal conversation.
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Thank you Hermit and Ookami... In Spain you also say "hace un frío que se las pela" "un frío de narices..."
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it's so freacking cold [out there]! it's very coloquial?

@laepelba what do you think of this weather? :P This week we are having near -5 to 0 C at the morning, no more than 10 C at the day, and near 4 at the night! The other morning, we were more cold in Buenos Aires than in "Base Marambio" in Antartida
No me hagas reir. 0 C para nosotros en enero es una onda de calor... de verdad. Cómprate un suéter y úsaloAquí hace un calor insoportable. Mostraron en la tele la semana pasada con temperaturas 105 F unos jovenes friendo un huevo.
Ahora invitaria unas brisas canadienses.
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