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Cold comfort

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Much less reassurance, consolation, aid, or pleasure than one needs or desires. countable, idiomatic, uncountable

    "[…] or ſhall I complaine on thee to our miſtris, whoſe hand / (ſhe being now at hand) thou ſhalt ſoone feele, to thy / cold comfort, for being ſlow in thy hot office."

  2. 2
    very limited consolation or empathy wordnet

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Popularized by William Shakespeare in The Taming of the Shrew, see quotations.

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