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cold snap
noun
- a sudden onset of a relatively brief period of cold weather.
cold snap
noun
- a sudden short spell of cold weather
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of cold snap1
Idioms and Phrases
Also, cold spell . A short period of unusually cold weather, as in The recent cold snap has threatened the crop . The first expression presumably likens snap in the sense of 鈥渁 sudden bite or cut鈥 to sudden unexpected cold. The variant is more obvious, spell having been used in the sense of 鈥渁 bout or turn at something鈥 since the early 1700s. [Early 1800s]Example Sentences
For example, Greenidge gas power plant in New York which was renovated to mine bitcoin was mandated to power down mining in January to supply electricity to the grid during a cold snap.
A new boiler, fitted under the contract last summer, broke down when the first cold snap arrived, and the youngest children had to be sent home for three days because the building was so cold.
This cold snap will also affect areas of the interior Central Coast, San Joaquin Valley, Ojai Valley and Santa Barbara County, where the weather service has issued freeze alerts.
Up until now we have had a real mix of unsettled weather with five named storms but we also had a significant cold snap in early January.
"We're still in the middle of winter, so I'm just hoping and praying we don't get another cold snap because I don't have anywhere to go if I can't pay my bills."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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