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cold comfort
noun
- slight or negligible comfort; scarce consolation.
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of cold comfort1
Idioms and Phrases
Slight or no consolation. For example, He can't lend us his canoe but will tell us where to rent one—that's cold comfort . The adjective cold was being applied to comfort in this sense by the early 1300s, and Shakespeare used the idiom numerous times.Example Sentences
That may be cold comfort for Americans adversely affected by the Doge chainsaw, however.
That he is not the first world leader to use violence or war to avoid prison offers cold comfort.
Trump's words after the Chinese app's sudden emergence in recent days were probably cold comfort to the likes of Altman and Ellison.
The Democratic governor characterized California’s economic might as “cold comfort†to regions that feel like they don’t fully participate in the state’s muscular output.
All that is admittedly cold comfort to the Palestinians caught in the crossfire, the Israeli hostages who remain in Gaza and the growing displaced populations of southern Lebanon and northern Israel.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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