chill to the bone
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]chill to the bone (third-person singular simple present chills to the bone, present participle chilling to the bone, simple past and past participle chilled to the bone)
- (idiomatic) To make someone extremely cold, or to be extremely cold.
- I was just chilled to the bone.
- 1983, Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly, “Alone”, in Bad Animals[1], performed by Heart, published 1987:
- Till now I always got by on my own / I never really cared until I met you / And now it chills me to the bone / How do I get you alone? / How do I get you alone?