stone cold

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stone cold (idiomatic)

1. 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. Lacking emotion or compassion.

   a stone-cold killer

3. 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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