NOUN
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very limited consolation or empathy
he told me that time heals all wounds but that was cold comfort to me
How To Use cold comfort In A Sentence
- But this is cold comfort to those struggling to manage tight household budgets. The Sun
- A small drop in the inflation rate was cold comfort for the millions without a job.
- After losing my job it was cold comfort to be told I'd won the office raffle.
- Another drop in the inflation rate was cold comfort yesterday for the 2.74 million jobless.
- A small drop in the inflation rate was cold comfort for the millions without a job.
- In the face of low pay and staff shortages, awards may seem cold comfort.
- The drop in the unemployment figures is cold comfort to those still looking for work.
- These figures may look good on paper but are cold comfort to the islanders themselves.
- But wilt thou make a fire, or shall I complain on thee to our mistress, whose hand, she being now at hand, thou shalt soon feel, to thy cold comfort, for being slow in thy hot office? Act IV. Scene I. The Taming of the Shrew
- They find a bleak life of constraint and alienation - not an heroic American salvation tale but a cold comfort saga.
