frost

clear moon, frost soon

proverb If there aren't clouds in the sky at night, then a frost is more likely to happen in the early morning. A: "Wow, you can really see the moon tonight!" B: "You know what that means—clear moon, frost soon."
See also: clear, frost, soon

frost (someone)

To cause someone to become angry, agitated, or annoyed. My sister really frosted me by using the last of my shampoo—again!
See also: frost

frost over

To become coated with a thin layer of ice. If the ground frosts over tonight, we'll have a much harder time digging into it tomorrow.
See also: frost, over

frost up

1. To become coated with a thin layer of ice. If the ground frosts up tonight, we'll have a much harder time digging into it tomorrow.
2. To cause something to become coated with a thin layer of ice. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "frost" and "up." I'm worried that the cold temperatures tonight will frost the ground up.
See also: frost, up

frosted

Angry, agitated, or annoyed. I'm frosted because you used the last of my shampoo—again!
See also: frost
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

frost over

to become covered with frost. The windows had all frosted over in the night. The car windows frosted over.
See also: frost, over

frosted (over)

Sl. angry; annoyed. The clerk was really frosted over when I asked for a better one. Why was he so frosted?
See also: frost
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

frost over

v.
To become covered with frost: The blades of grass frosted over in the cold night air.
See also: frost, over

frost up

v.
1. To become covered with frost: The windows frosted up quickly when the temperature dropped.
2. To cause something to become covered with frost: The freezing air frosted up the windows. Our breath frosted the mirrors up.
See also: frost, up
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.

frost

tv. to make someone angry. (see also frosted (over).) The little car frosted me by zooming into my parking place.

frosted (over)

mod. angry; annoyed. The clerk was really frosted over when I asked for a better one.
See also: frost, over

frosted

verb
See frosted over
See also: frost
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • teach a man to fish
  • it takes a village
  • village
  • best-laid plans go astray, the
  • the best-laid plans
  • the best-laid plans go astray
  • the best-laid plans of mice and men
  • for want of a nail
  • For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse ...
  • bad habits die hard
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Frost Characteristics during Tests with Small Variations of the Surface Temperature
Effect of Mixed Super-Hydrophilic and Super-Hydrophobic Surface Coatings on Droplets Freezing and Subsequent Frost Growth During Air Forced Convection Channel Flows
The victim got into his car, called police and tailed Frost until he stopped on the 400 block of South Lake Street.
Man pleads guilty to 4th DUI, gets 5 years
Temperature in nearby Baguio City dropped recently to 11.4 degrees Celsius, but this did not generate frost, locally known as 'andap,' Bentres said.
Farmers cope as cases of frost wane
To sum up, the combination of some factors and levels of coarse-grained soil also produces certain frost heave.
Experimental Research on Frost Heave Characteristics of Gravel Soil and Multifactor Regression Prediction
For the range of conditions typical of heat pump systems, frost formation consists of three primary phases: condensation and droplet growth, crystal growth, and growth of a homogeneous, porous frost layer (Hoke et al.
A New Model for Frost Growth Incorporating Droplet Condensation and Crystal Growth Phases
At Cambridge crown court, prosecutor Jonathan Polnay said Frost was on an 18-hour cocaine binge and had not slept for 30 hours.
Driver took coke at the wheel before killing two pedestrians
Meanwhile, the Frosts left a lot on the court in their semifinal victory over No.
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Daily minimum temperatures measured at Stevenson screen level (height of 1.5 m above the ground) are normally used to assess the occurrence of frost in most places where ground or canopy level measurements are not recorded and the most common threshold value is temperature of 0[degrees]C or less [4,19].
Spatiotemporal Variation of Frost within Growing Periods
(5) Frost Bank operates only in Texas, and the bank's main office is in San Antonio, Texas.
Order Approving the Establishment of Branches: FRB Order No. 2016-02 (March 14, 2016)
Robert Frost's granddaughter travels roads not taken by previous biographers.
You Come Too; My Journey with Robert Frost
Synopsis: Robert Frost stood at the intersection of nineteenth-century romanticism and twentieth-century modernism and made both his own.
How Robert Frost Made Realism Matter
Sydney Frost, Edited and annotated by Edward Roberts.
Sydney Frost, Edited and annotated by Edward Roberts. A Blue Puttee at War: The Memoir of Captain Sydney Frost