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(The effect that the weather has on us)</h1> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">On <a href="https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2025/02/12/chilled-to-the-bone-or-roasting-the-effect-that-the-weather-has-on-us/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2025-02-12T12:00:26+00:00">February 12, 2025</time><time class="updated" datetime="2025-01-22T19:10:47+00:00">January 22, 2025</time></a></span><span class="byline"> By <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/author/katewoodford/">Kate Woodford</a></span></span><span class="cat-links">In <a href="https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/category/conversation/" rel="category tag">Conversation</a>, <a href="https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/category/the-english-language/" rel="category tag">the English language</a>, <a href="https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/category/vocabulary/" rel="category tag">Vocabulary</a></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p><em>Listen to the author reading this blog post.</em></p>  <audio class="wp-audio-shortcode" id="audio-21011-1" preload="none" style="width: 100%;" controls="controls"><source type="audio/mpeg" src="https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chilled-to-the-bone_Kate_12.02.2025.mp3?_=1" /><a href="https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chilled-to-the-bone_Kate_12.02.2025.mp3">https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chilled-to-the-bone_Kate_12.02.2025.mp3</a></audio> <p> </p> <figure id="attachment_21058" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-21058" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chilled-to-the-bone_Kate_12.02.2025_1369094087.jpg?ssl=1"><img data-recalc-dims="1" fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" data-attachment-id="21058" data-permalink="https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2025/02/12/chilled-to-the-bone-or-roasting-the-effect-that-the-weather-has-on-us/portrait-of-a-teenage-boy-who-is-very-cold-during-the-blizzard-on-a-winter-day/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chilled-to-the-bone_Kate_12.02.2025_1369094087.jpg?fit=2120%2C1414&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2120,1414" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.2","credit":"Getty Images","camera":"Canon EOS R5","caption":"Teenage boy outdoors during the blizzard. 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(The effect that the weather has on us), from About Words, by Kate Woodford</p> " data-image-caption="<p>Imgorthand / E+</p> " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chilled-to-the-bone_Kate_12.02.2025_1369094087.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chilled-to-the-bone_Kate_12.02.2025_1369094087.jpg?fit=640%2C427&ssl=1" class="size-medium wp-image-21058" src="https://i0.wp.com/dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chilled-to-the-bone_Kate_12.02.2025_1369094087.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1" alt="A teenage boy bundled up against the cold in a snowy landscape" width="300" height="200" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chilled-to-the-bone_Kate_12.02.2025_1369094087.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chilled-to-the-bone_Kate_12.02.2025_1369094087.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chilled-to-the-bone_Kate_12.02.2025_1369094087.jpg?resize=768%2C512&ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chilled-to-the-bone_Kate_12.02.2025_1369094087.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&ssl=1 1536w, https://i0.wp.com/dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chilled-to-the-bone_Kate_12.02.2025_1369094087.jpg?resize=2048%2C1366&ssl=1 2048w, https://i0.wp.com/dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chilled-to-the-bone_Kate_12.02.2025_1369094087.jpg?resize=900%2C600&ssl=1 900w, https://i0.wp.com/dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chilled-to-the-bone_Kate_12.02.2025_1369094087.jpg?resize=1280%2C854&ssl=1 1280w, https://i0.wp.com/dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Chilled-to-the-bone_Kate_12.02.2025_1369094087.jpg?w=1920&ssl=1 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-21058" class="wp-caption-text">Imgorthand / E+</figcaption></figure> <p>by <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/katewoodford2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kate Woodford</a></strong></p> <p>It’s the second week of February and here in Cambridge, the weather feels <strong><a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/arctic#cald4-2">arctic</a></strong>! As I type this, my fingers <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/be-as-cold-as-ice?q=as+cold+as+ice"><strong>are as cold as ice</strong></a>. Time to get that electric heater from the spare room! In a way though, it’s appropriate, as today’s post is about how we describe the effect that the weather has on us.</p> <p><span id="more-21011"></span></p> <p>Staying with the cold theme, if a person or a part of their body feels very cold, we can use the adjectives <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/frozen#cald4-2"><strong>frozen</strong></a> or <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/freezing"><strong>freezing</strong></a>. If a part of their body is <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/frozen#cald4-2"><strong>frozen stiff</strong></a>, it is so cold, they can’t bend or move it:</p> <p><em>My feet are frozen!</em></p> <p><em>Where’s that blanket? I’m freezing!</em></p> <p><em>By the end of the walk, my hands were frozen stiff.</em></p> <p>A part of the body that is so cold, it is slightly blue or grey may be described as <strong>blue with cold</strong>:</p> <p><em>Look at your poor fingers – they’re blue with cold!</em></p> <p>If you can’t feel a part of your body because it is so cold, you can say it is <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/numb"><strong>numb</strong></a> or <strong>numb with cold</strong>. You might instead say that you <strong>can’t feel</strong> or have <strong>lost all feeling in</strong> that bit of the body:</p> <p><em>My toes are numb with cold!</em></p> <p><em>I can’t feel my fingers, they’re so cold!</em></p> <p><em>I’ve lost all feeling in my feet!</em></p> <p>Finally for ‘cold’ language, if you are extremely cold and want to convey this with a nice emphatic idiom, you can say you are <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/chilled-to-the-bone"><strong>chilled to the bone</strong></a>:</p> <p><em>We’d been waiting in the cold for hours and were chilled to the bone.</em></p> <p>Moving on to heat, there are two nice adjectives that you can use to express how hot you are: <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/boiling"><strong>boiling</strong></a> and <strong><a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/roasting">roasting</a></strong>:</p> <p><em>I’m boiling in this sweater!</em></p> <p><em>Can you please open the window? I’m roasting!</em></p> <p>If your body is so hot that you are covered in sweat, you can say you <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/be-dripping-with?q=be+dripping+with+sth"><strong>are dripping with sweat</strong></a>, <strong><a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bathe#cald4-1-2">bathed</a> in</strong> <strong>sweat</strong> or <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/drench"><strong>drenched</strong></a><strong> with</strong> <strong>sweat</strong>:</p> <p><em>After walking for half an hour in the 90-degree heat, I was dripping with sweat.</em></p> <p><em>I woke up bathed in sweat.</em></p> <p><em>Tom arrived at the office drenched with sweat.</em></p> <p>And what about getting wet in the rain? How do we describe this? If we are very wet, we can use the adjectives <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/soaked"><strong>soaked</strong></a> or <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/drench?q=drenched"><strong>drenched</strong></a>, and to emphasize that our clothes are all completely wet, we can say we are <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/drenched-soaked-wet-to-the-skin"><strong>soaked/drenched to the skin</strong></a> or <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/soaked"><strong>soaked through</strong></a>. The adjective <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/soaking"><strong>soaking</strong></a> or, for emphasis, <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/soaking"><strong>soaking wet</strong></a>, can also be used:</p> <p><em>Come in – you’re drenched!</em></p> <p><em>It was raining so hard that I got soaked to the skin.</em></p> <p><em>I need to change my clothes – I’m soaked through! </em></p> <p><em>You’re soaking wet, you poor thing!</em></p> <p>Finally, I’ll leave you with a very vivid idiom in this area. 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(The effect that the weather has on us)</span>” </h2> <ol class="comment-list"> <li id="comment-252957" class="comment even thread-even depth-1 parent"> <article id="div-comment-252957" class="comment-body"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/edd2998743965b0575d772d247ee303c?s=60&d=identicon&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/edd2998743965b0575d772d247ee303c?s=120&d=identicon&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-60 photo' height='60' width='60' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn">Loren</b> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>Great post, thank you, Kate! In Spanish ”empapado hasta los huesos”, and in French, ‘complètement trempé’… ‘look like a drowned rat’ says it all! 😉</p> <div class='jetpack-comment-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded' id='like-comment-wrapper-18458032-252957-67b6b28f24410' data-src='https://widgets.wp.com/likes/#blog_id=18458032&comment_id=252957&origin=dictionaryblog.cambridge.org&obj_id=18458032-252957-67b6b28f24410' data-name='like-comment-frame-18458032-252957-67b6b28f24410'> <div class='likes-widget-placeholder comment-likes-widget-placeholder comment-likes'><span class='loading'>Loading...</span></div> <div class='comment-likes-widget jetpack-likes-widget comment-likes'><span class='comment-like-feedback'></span><span class='sd-text-color'></span><a class='sd-link-color'></a></div> </div> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2025/02/12/chilled-to-the-bone-or-roasting-the-effect-that-the-weather-has-on-us/#comment-252957"> <time datetime="2025-02-12T14:35:54+00:00"> February 12, 2025 at 2:35 pm </time> </a> <span class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-252957" data-commentid="252957" data-postid="21011" data-belowelement="div-comment-252957" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Loren" aria-label="Reply to Loren">Reply</a></span> </div> </article> <ol class="children"> <li id="comment-252997" class="comment odd alt depth-2"> <article id="div-comment-252997" class="comment-body"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/988b80ceae4ca587877a8a002718c879?s=60&d=identicon&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/988b80ceae4ca587877a8a002718c879?s=120&d=identicon&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-60 photo' height='60' width='60' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn">Alberto</b> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>In Italy we say inzuppato a mollo</p> <div 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It’s pretty silly^^</p> <div class='jetpack-comment-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded' id='like-comment-wrapper-18458032-252961-67b6b28f2565b' data-src='https://widgets.wp.com/likes/#blog_id=18458032&comment_id=252961&origin=dictionaryblog.cambridge.org&obj_id=18458032-252961-67b6b28f2565b' data-name='like-comment-frame-18458032-252961-67b6b28f2565b'> <div class='likes-widget-placeholder comment-likes-widget-placeholder comment-likes'><span class='loading'>Loading...</span></div> <div class='comment-likes-widget jetpack-likes-widget comment-likes'><span class='comment-like-feedback'></span><span class='sd-text-color'></span><a class='sd-link-color'></a></div> </div> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2025/02/12/chilled-to-the-bone-or-roasting-the-effect-that-the-weather-has-on-us/#comment-252961"> <time datetime="2025-02-12T16:10:34+00:00"> February 12, 2025 at 4:10 pm </time> </a> <span class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="#comment-252961" data-commentid="252961" data-postid="21011" data-belowelement="div-comment-252961" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Marc" aria-label="Reply to Marc">Reply</a></span> </div> </article> </li> <li id="comment-252962" class="comment even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1"> <article id="div-comment-252962" class="comment-body"> <footer class="comment-meta"> <div class="comment-author vcard"> <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/380b2a6ec80299c5b1644cbe8afe356b?s=60&d=identicon&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/380b2a6ec80299c5b1644cbe8afe356b?s=120&d=identicon&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-60 photo' height='60' width='60' loading='lazy' decoding='async'/> <b class="fn">sarahka2018</b> </div> </footer> <div class="comment-content"> <p>The closest equivalent idiom in Farsi for “look like a drowned rat” is:</p> <p>“مثل موش آب کشیده شدی!” (Mesl-e moosh-e âb keshide shodi!)</p> <p>This literally means “You’ve become like a washed rat!” and is used to describe someone who is soaked and looks miserable, just like the English idiom. It conveys the same sense of being drenched and disheveled.</p> <div class='jetpack-comment-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded' id='like-comment-wrapper-18458032-252962-67b6b28f25c3e' data-src='https://widgets.wp.com/likes/#blog_id=18458032&comment_id=252962&origin=dictionaryblog.cambridge.org&obj_id=18458032-252962-67b6b28f25c3e' data-name='like-comment-frame-18458032-252962-67b6b28f25c3e'> <div class='likes-widget-placeholder comment-likes-widget-placeholder comment-likes'><span class='loading'>Loading...</span></div> <div class='comment-likes-widget jetpack-likes-widget comment-likes'><span class='comment-like-feedback'></span><span class='sd-text-color'></span><a class='sd-link-color'></a></div> </div> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2025/02/12/chilled-to-the-bone-or-roasting-the-effect-that-the-weather-has-on-us/#comment-252962"> <time datetime="2025-02-12T18:20:21+00:00"> February 12, 2025 at 6:20 pm </time> </a> 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像落湯雞” thank you so much</p> <div class='jetpack-comment-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded' id='like-comment-wrapper-18458032-252965-67b6b28f26314' data-src='https://widgets.wp.com/likes/#blog_id=18458032&comment_id=252965&origin=dictionaryblog.cambridge.org&obj_id=18458032-252965-67b6b28f26314' data-name='like-comment-frame-18458032-252965-67b6b28f26314'> <div class='likes-widget-placeholder comment-likes-widget-placeholder comment-likes'><span class='loading'>Loading...</span></div> <div class='comment-likes-widget jetpack-likes-widget comment-likes'><span class='comment-like-feedback'></span><span class='sd-text-color'></span><a class='sd-link-color'></a></div> </div> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2025/02/12/chilled-to-the-bone-or-roasting-the-effect-that-the-weather-has-on-us/#comment-252965"> <time datetime="2025-02-12T23:28:32+00:00"> February 12, 2025 at 11:28 pm </time> </a> <span class="reply"><a 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Maybe it’s human nature to make fun of someone’s bad luck by using the image of the animals.</p> <div class='jetpack-comment-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded' id='like-comment-wrapper-18458032-252971-67b6b28f27d8f' data-src='https://widgets.wp.com/likes/#blog_id=18458032&comment_id=252971&origin=dictionaryblog.cambridge.org&obj_id=18458032-252971-67b6b28f27d8f' data-name='like-comment-frame-18458032-252971-67b6b28f27d8f'> <div class='likes-widget-placeholder comment-likes-widget-placeholder comment-likes'><span class='loading'>Loading...</span></div> <div class='comment-likes-widget jetpack-likes-widget comment-likes'><span class='comment-like-feedback'></span><span class='sd-text-color'></span><a class='sd-link-color'></a></div> </div> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2025/02/12/chilled-to-the-bone-or-roasting-the-effect-that-the-weather-has-on-us/#comment-252971"> <time datetime="2025-02-13T10:14:54+00:00"> February 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Like every thread of your clothing is wet</p> <div class='jetpack-comment-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded' id='like-comment-wrapper-18458032-252985-67b6b28f296e8' data-src='https://widgets.wp.com/likes/#blog_id=18458032&comment_id=252985&origin=dictionaryblog.cambridge.org&obj_id=18458032-252985-67b6b28f296e8' data-name='like-comment-frame-18458032-252985-67b6b28f296e8'> <div class='likes-widget-placeholder comment-likes-widget-placeholder comment-likes'><span class='loading'>Loading...</span></div> <div class='comment-likes-widget jetpack-likes-widget comment-likes'><span class='comment-like-feedback'></span><span class='sd-text-color'></span><a class='sd-link-color'></a></div> </div> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2025/02/12/chilled-to-the-bone-or-roasting-the-effect-that-the-weather-has-on-us/#comment-252985"> <time datetime="2025-02-16T09:11:40+00:00"> February 16, 2025 at 9:11 am </time> </a> <span 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get soaked to the skin (промокнуть до нитки), then related to the threads of clothes (all the threads of clothes got wet all the way down to the last one) 💦🧵</p> <div class='jetpack-comment-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded' id='like-comment-wrapper-18458032-252989-67b6b28f2a3f1' data-src='https://widgets.wp.com/likes/#blog_id=18458032&comment_id=252989&origin=dictionaryblog.cambridge.org&obj_id=18458032-252989-67b6b28f2a3f1' data-name='like-comment-frame-18458032-252989-67b6b28f2a3f1'> <div class='likes-widget-placeholder comment-likes-widget-placeholder comment-likes'><span class='loading'>Loading...</span></div> <div class='comment-likes-widget jetpack-likes-widget comment-likes'><span class='comment-like-feedback'></span><span class='sd-text-color'></span><a class='sd-link-color'></a></div> </div> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a 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In German we say: you look like a watered poodle.</p> <div class='jetpack-comment-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded' id='like-comment-wrapper-18458032-252991-67b6b28f2a9e7' data-src='https://widgets.wp.com/likes/#blog_id=18458032&comment_id=252991&origin=dictionaryblog.cambridge.org&obj_id=18458032-252991-67b6b28f2a9e7' data-name='like-comment-frame-18458032-252991-67b6b28f2a9e7'> <div class='likes-widget-placeholder comment-likes-widget-placeholder comment-likes'><span class='loading'>Loading...</span></div> <div class='comment-likes-widget jetpack-likes-widget comment-likes'><span class='comment-like-feedback'></span><span class='sd-text-color'></span><a class='sd-link-color'></a></div> </div> </div> <div class="comment-metadata"> <a href="https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2025/02/12/chilled-to-the-bone-or-roasting-the-effect-that-the-weather-has-on-us/#comment-252991"> <time datetime="2025-02-17T07:14:57+00:00"> February 17, 2025 at 7:14 am </time> </a> <span 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