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| Russian | English |
| бросить в холод | give somebody kittens (Irboya) |
| жуткий холод | brass monkey (the phrase "cold enough to freeze the balls off (or on) a brass monkey" is a colloquial expression used by some English speakers. The reference to the testes (as the term balls is commonly understood to mean) of the brass monkey appears to be a 20th-century variant on the expression, prefigured by a range of references to other body parts, especially the nose and tail Taras) |
| посинеть от холода | be blue with cold (IlonaSun) |
| собачий холод | bone-chilling temperatures (CNN, 2021 Alex_Odeychuk) |
| холод собачий | cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey (Wikipedia article 4uzhoj) |