cold comfort

cold comfort {n.}

Something that makes a person in trouble feel very little better or even worse.

When Tim lost the race, it was cold comfort to him to hear that he could try again in two weeks.

Mary spent her vacation sick in bed and Jane's letter about her trip was cold comfort.

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[cold] See: [BLOOD RUNS COLD], [BLOW HOT AND COLD], [CATCH COLD] or [TAKE COLD], [IN COLD BLOOD], [OUT COLD], [OUT IN THE COLD], [PASS OUT] (2), [STONE-COLD], [STOP COLD], [THROW […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[cold shoulder] {n.}, {informal} Unfriendly treatment of a person, a showing of dislike for a person or of looking down on a person. - Used in the cliches "give the […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[comfort] See: [COLD COMFORT]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

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