Potatoes (or taters) in the mould In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "Potatoes (or taters) in the mould", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

author Caroline Tran calendar 2020-07-31 09:07

Meaning of Potatoes (or taters) in the mould

Synonyms:

cold as ice , low in temperature , cold as a witch's kiss

Potatoes (or taters) in the mould British noun phrase informal slang

Used as a cockney rhyming slang for cold

There is no doubt that it's winter now. It's taters in the mould!

I have never in my life missed Summer this much because today is taters in the mould!

Other phrases about:

you'll catch your death (of cold)

Used to advise that someone should wear warm or dry clothes, otherwise he or she will catch a very bad cold

so cold (that) you could hang meat (in it/there)

Used to describe a room/place so cold that you could hang meat in there like a frozen meat warehouse.

chill to the bone

1. To be extremely cold
2. To make someone exceedingly scared
 

freeze (one's) tail off

If you say you freeze your tail off, you mean that you are extremely cold.

chill (one) to the marrow

1. To make or be extremely chilly.

2. To terrify someone.

Origin of Potatoes (or taters) in the mould

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This phrase derives from rhyming slang in which "taters (potatoes) in the mould" rhymes with "cold" and it is mostly used by the British.

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