Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Deadly cold.

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Examples

  • "YOU'RE going to catch your death-a-cold," exclaimed

    McTeague 1920

  • You'll get your death-a-cold if you stand round soaked like that.

    McTeague 1920

  • "YOU'RE going to catch your death-a-cold," exclaimed Heise.

    McTeague 1899

  • You'll get your death-a-cold if you stand round soaked like that.

    McTeague 1899

  • You'll get your death-a-cold if you stand round soaked like that.

    McTeague Frank Norris 1886

  • "YOU'RE going to catch your death-a-cold," exclaimed Heise.

    McTeague Frank Norris 1886

  • Not merely was it the shiver which this pitiless blast brought to her frame (although her feet and hands, especially, had never seemed so death-a-cold as now), but there was a moral sensation, mingling itself with the physical chill, and causing her to shake more in spirit than in body.

    The House of the Seven Gables 1851

  • Not merely was it the shiver which this pitiless blast brought to her frame (although her feet and hands, especially, had never seemed so death-a-cold as now), but there was a moral sensation, mingling itself with the physical chill, and causing her to shake more in spirit than in body.

    The House of the Seven Gables 1851

  • Not merely was it the shiver which this pitiless blast brought to her frame (although her feet and hands, especially, had never seemed so death-a-cold as now), but there was a moral sensation, mingling itself with the physical chill, and causing her to shake more in spirit than in body.

    House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • Yes, I guess I did get caught in the rain, and it ain't your fault I didn't catch my death-a-cold; wouldn't even let me have a nickel for car fare. "

    McTeague 1920

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