stone cold

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stone cold

1. (idiomatic) Very cold; lacking any semblance of warmth.

   I forgot to turn on the burner under the soup and found it sitting there, still stone cold, twenty minutes later.

2. (idiomatic) Certain; definite; obvious.

   2006 November 6, Philip Thornton, “Interest rate rise a 'stone-cold certainty' despite industry plea”, in The Independent‎:

   "A hike on Thursday looks a stone cold certainty," Howard Archer, chief UK economist at Global Insight, said.

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