stone cold

stone cold
a) 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.

b) Certain; definite; obvious.

Interest rate rise a stone-cold certainty despite industry plea ([ The Independent, 6 November 2006])


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