Hace un frío que pela

[ROBINDESBOIS]

ENGLISH?
It´s freezing cold and ...............

[poli]

It's so cold you can freeze your .... off. (You can fill in those dots with your choice of private appendages)

[Ambarina]

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

[jrheath]

In one of his novels Delibes uses:
"frío como para destetar a buitres"

[ROBINDESBOIS]

No sabía que los buitres mamaban, para tener que destetarlos. SUpongo que Delibes estaba más puesto en el tema. JAJAJA

[JPablo]

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...

[ookami]

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

[hermit]

"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.

[JPablo]

Thank you Hermit and Ookami... In Spain you also say "hace un frío que se las pela" "un frío de narices..."

[poli]

Originally Posted by ookami

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.

[CrOtALiTo]

I may give my opinion.

In the phrase commented before, I believe that could be better wrote as Hace frio que asusta.
Already that pela word is a bad word on my country.
Please keep in mind my point.

Sincerely yours.

[JPablo]

Originally Posted by poli

No me hagas reír. 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 jóvenes friendo un huevo.
Ahora invitaría [me apetecería sentir] unas brisas canadienses.

Sí, Poli, estas cosas de la temperatura son relativas... He marcado un par de correcciones en el español...
En azul una sugerencia. (El uso de "invitar" como lo haces no suena español... quizá, "Ahora invitaría a venir a unas brisas canadienses" pudiera sonar más español, pero lo que te he puesto en corchetes [brackets] creo que es lo que querías decir, ¿verdad? (Now I feel like having some Canadian breezes...)

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

I may give my opinion.

In the phrase commented before, I believe that could be better wrote as Hace frio que asusta.
Already that pela word is a bad word on my country.
Please keep in mind my point.

Sincerely yours.

I understand, CrOtALiTo, in Spain that is a cliché. But it is also used with many, many different variants, more or less polite.
"Hace un frío de miedo/de narices/de perros/de muerte/de infarto/de mil demonios/de co*ones (not putting the full word here, but it can be found in verbal speech in Spanish as well as in Google)/de la ch*ngada (again another taboo word, but still in use...) and so on and so forth.
(The amount of expressions with "Hace un frío de___" is not unlimited, but I get 8,000,000 hits in Google...

[CrOtALiTo]

Yes I agree with your point now.

Cuando hace frio lo hace.
When it's cold is the dead in alive.

[JPablo]

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

Yes I agree with your point now.

Cuando hace frío, lo hace.
When it's cold is the dead in alive.

Thank you. I am not sure of your last sentence. Can you clarify? It seems like you are giving an English cliché, but something seems off, as I cannot recognize. I think of the Spanish "Cuando hace frío es estar muerto vivo", if that is something we could say? I heard "muerto en vida" in Spanish... but that's about it... (Let me know!)