Idioms for how cold it is?

[Overseasmom100]

Doing a list and Ive come up with these

It's brass monkeys
Arctic weather
Frozen to the bone
Like the death of winter
Like Jack Frost has been

Not quite in the same vein but amongst my friends and family we say:

It's cold enough for a walking stick
I'm freezing my royal Rastafarian nae-naes off
It's chilly on my willy
Ooh it's a bit nipply out
Chillers McChillerson

I feel like my social circle might be more childish than yours

Execellent..

Brass monkey weather .
Lazy wind ...goes through you not round you .
Chillywombles
I am 1900 and frozen to death ( one of my dear dad’s sayings )

Cold , cold , colder than an eskimo’s Willy
And that’s really chilly . ( Said in a doomy voice ...from a book I read years ago.)

Cold as the frost on a polar bear's bum
Cold as charity, and that's damned chilly
But it's not as cold as poor old Willy.
He's dead.
Poor bugger.

A favourite of my father (RIP)!

It's fucking baltic - is a phrase I overuse.

Baltic is one I hear more often now.

Colder than a witch's tit

some great ones

More use of Baltic here too. Also, as I’m in Yorkshire, it’s bloody nithering/I’m nithered.

I think we use “fucking Baltic” more than anything. Although DH did come out with a “narrow wind” last week which made me laugh- I’d only ever heard thin wind or lazy wind so his was a new one.

I believe it is “bastard freezing” out there this morning according to DH

It's un-fucking-reasonably cold is quite a common one round here.

It's bloody baltic

The brass monkey wants his nuts back

Fucking freezing.... said by me many times already today.

My Mother used to say “starving with the cold” which was a very ancient use of starve meaning death.

By the 14th century starve had begun to narrow its meaning to die of hunger, but the wider meaning remained in some idioms.
Narrowing of meaning is a typical way that language evolves over the years.

Cold enough to freeze your bollocks off.

We often say it’s chilly freezy out there.

It's Friggity McChiggity!

Colder than a snowman’s white bits...usually justvsay ‘bloody baltic’ as in Scotland it’s usually is bloody Baltic.

AdaColeman, not quite as ancient as the 1400s, but in the late 1960s my Yorkshire student landlady - she was maybe 65-70 - still used 'starve' in that sense, as in, 'I'd better light the fire or that bird (her budgie) will starve to death.'

She still used thee and thou now and then, too, mostly to said budgie!

It's a bit thin or blows a bit thin. Both Yorkshire expressions.

Brrr Blobs, after the 1970s ice lolly.

Its that cold I've just seen a brass monkey with a welding rod

We have joked about "Snowmageddon!"

It was a headline in the Express, I think? Anyway hyperbolic nonsense but it's sticking around amongst our group. Maybe it will last as a saying.

Its so cold I can hang my coat off my nipples.

Brass monkeys are struggling to hold onto their balls.
Fuck me, it's bastard freezing.
Even my goosebumps have gone into hiding.
It's cold enough to snap your nose off.
I've got the nip on.

'Taters - as in "taters in the mould" = cold

Bit fresh outside
Fuckin freezin
Brass fuckin monkeys

I had a boyfriend who was absolutely convinced that "chilstern" was a word. I had to get him to look through the dictionary to see that it wasn't in there, and then of course it was the dictionary that was wrong....