词汇 | eighteen-hundred-and-freeze to death |
词源 | Eighteen-hundred-and-freeze to death. A humorous name for the year of 1817, when an unusually cold winter in New En- gland was followed by a cold spring, and the weather continued to be so unseasonable that many crops failed. Some sources put the years as 1816–17 and include the summer of 1816 as a very cold one when crops failed. |
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