Wiktionary
a. (context idiomatic English) extremely and unpleasantly cold (''of the weather, the temperature in a place, a person, or an object'') n. (context idiomatic English) extreme and unpleasant cold
Usage examples of "freezing cold".
After the first five lines of soldiers, there were almost as many women and girls in the remainder of the phalanx as there were men, although everyone was so muffled against the freezing cold and biting winds of those high altitudes that it was impossible almost to tell man from woman.
Do not think it strange, my good friend: in Lhasa in wintertime a shower that is not freezing cold is a luxury beyond all the perfumes of Araby, and I probably smelled, most people here did, lived in their clothes, and I'd soaked these with sweat in the temple when he'd come for me.
After the freezing cold darkness of the night, the tavern's warmth and brightness were shocking.
But the freezing cold coursing through his body slowed him down and weakened him.
In the freezing cold but clear night, they or clothes, except for their boots and fur outer garments, idn't bother with setting up the low tent.
When it's freezing cold out on the steppes, or on the damp bank of a river when the warm bed is a few steps away.
It was now freezing cold in the room, and indeed the table and the stove and the hanging copper pots were covered with a thin layer of white frost.
It was now freezing cold hi the room, and indeed the table and the stove and the hanging copper pots were covered with a thin layer of white frost.