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Cold Hand, Warm Heart

 

Cold Hands, Warm Heart

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Meaning:

Cold hands, warm heart alludes to people who have cold hands, have kind and loving personalities. 

Example Sentence:

 Jessica: "I don't like holding hands with Steve. His hands are so cold."

 Taylor: "Cold hands, warm heart."  

 

Origin:

This phrase has been around since the 1700’s and is said to come from a French phrase Froides mains, chaudes amours, from Dictionnaire des proverbes françois by Georges de Backer in (1710).

The phrase has held the same meaning since it has been written. This idiom has been alive for a while and is still used today. The first English text of the phrase cold hands, warm heart was in 1903 by V.S. Lean in 'Collectanea."

 "Cold Hands, Warm Heart"

The expression does not only exist in English and French but is also known in German as Kalte Hand, Warmez Herz.

Today we use it to say just because a person might seem cold and quiet in a public setting, they are a warm and loving person in a private setting. Now, this saying is not literal, you can be a good person with warm hands. It was used figuratively to say a cold person on the outside, might be a nice person on the inside. It was also used in public settings to help keep a person with cold hands from being embarrassed.


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