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French idioms

What does “Un froid de canard” mean?

FrenchWeather and timeInformal

Un froid de canard

Word for word

A duck cold

What it really means

A biting, unbearable cold. It is the everyday way of complaining about winter.

How we say it in English

Bitterly cold

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