Timeline for Is there any phrase for the coldest days of the winter?
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| Dec 7, 2020 at 0:20 | comment | added | Phil Sweet | In the Florida Keys, it was socks weather (dire times indeed). Anything below about 70 F, if you wanted to do something outside, was best to fly to Puerto Rico where it was warm, or go visit a friend whose house had heat. If the temp dropped to 65 F, the bus stop looked like Shackleton's expedition had come to town. | |
| Aug 11, 2020 at 1:22 | answer | added | copack357 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 4, 2020 at 3:37 | comment | added | Bob Jarvis - Слава Україні | Well, I 'eard the Prime Minister say, "It's cold enough to freeze a monkey's bum out there, Your Highness!", and she smiled quietly to herself. | |
| Aug 4, 2020 at 0:01 | comment | added | Laurence | Rather more may have encountered her fountain in 'Good King Wenceslas'. | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 14:04 | answer | added | Graham | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 8:53 | comment | added | Greybeard | @SvenYargs two or three percent of your readers would no doubt think to themselves, I suspect you are wildly optimistic about the numbers who have read Keats and know of the significance of St Agnes's Eve. :) | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 3:43 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | As fans of John Keats know, St. Agnes's Eve (January 20) was traditionally reckoned (in his day, in England) to be the coldest night of the year. So if you referred to something as happening "round about the Eve of St Agnes," two or three percent of your readers would no doubt think to themselves, "Ah, bitter chill it was!" | |
| Aug 2, 2020 at 22:25 | answer | added | paul garrett | timeline score: 16 | |
| Aug 2, 2020 at 19:54 | comment | added | BeatsMe | @ronrothman - Certainly not in Antarctica! | |
| Aug 2, 2020 at 16:07 | comment | added | ron rothman | In what country? | |
| Aug 2, 2020 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1289893723271176192 | ||
| Aug 2, 2020 at 11:18 | answer | added | Rayan Khan | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 2, 2020 at 8:35 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Aug 2, 2020 at 7:59 | vote | accept | BeatsMe | ||
| Aug 1, 2020 at 22:15 | answer | added | user 66974 | timeline score: 62 | |
| Aug 1, 2020 at 21:45 | history | asked | BeatsMe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |