cold snap

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)A short and sudden period ofcoldweather.Synonyms:cold wave,cold spellA recentcold snapdamaged citrus crops.2025March 5, Richard Wilcock, “In defence of the train drivers”, inRAIL, number1030, page30:On the day thatRAILmeets Mick Whelan, it's during a particularly chillycold snap. A story has broken in the national press about train drivers refusing to walk to their cabs atEdge Hilldepot, because the paths to the trains have not been cleared of snow.

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