comfort

(one's) comfort zone

1. A place, activity, situation, or psychological state in which a person feels free from anxiety and is within their of ability, experience, security, and/or control. Though it is often outside your comfort zone, traveling to foreign countries gives you a much greater perspective on how other people in the world live. The new job is a little out of my comfort zone, but it will give me a great opportunity to see what I'm truly capable of.

a beam of (something)

informal A small but steadfast amount or source of something hopeful or positive. My lovely daughter has been a beam of joy in such a trying year of hardship. The charity is the sole beam of comfort to the many people displaced by war who have been reduced to such squalid conditions.

be cold comfort

To fail as an intended source of solace. The news that I got a meager raise is cold comfort after not getting that big promotion. The fact that it's "stage one" is cold comfort to me—it's still cancer!

See also: cold, comfort

cold comfort

Something that has failed as an intended source of solace. The news that I got a meager raise is cold comfort after not getting that big promotion. The fact that it's "stage one" is cold comfort to me—it's still cancer!

See also: cold, comfort

comfort food

Particular dishes or food items that are meant to ease emotional pain upon consumption, as by reminding one of home or childhood. Often, such food is high in calories or carbohydrates. Did Mom make mac and cheese tonight? I'm definitely in need of some comfort food. What's your favorite comfort food? Mine is poutine.

comfort girl

slang A woman or girl forced into sexual slavery or recruited into prostitution by and in service of the Japanese Imperial Army before and during World War II. Although the Japanese government officially admitted to its role in coercing women to become comfort girls during the Second World War, there are still many who deny how many women were affected and the extent to which the government was responsible at the time.

comfort station

A public bathroom. I sure hope there's a comfort station at this next rest stop!

comfort woman

slang A woman or girl forced into sexual slavery or recruited into prostitution by and in service of the Japanese Imperial Army before and during World War II. Although the Japanese government officially admitted to its role in coercing women to become comfort women during the Second World War, there are still many who deny how many were affected and the extent to which the government was responsible at the time.

comfort zone

2. The temperature range wherein the human body feels naturally comfortable, being neither too hot nor too cold. Many retired Americans, being more sensitive to the cold, settle in Florida, where the balmy weather better suits their comfort zones.

creature comforts

Things that one needs in order to feel happy and comfortable. I have a hard time abandoning my creature comforts to go hiking and camping. At a minimum, I need running water!

See also: comfort, creature

take comfort in (something)

To be soothed or calmed by something. I know this trial has been tremendously hard on you, but take comfort in the fact that the man responsible is now behind bars forever. When things get tough, I take comfort in the company of my closest friends.

there, there

A phrase used to soothe one who is upset. There, there, sweetie. Everything is going to be OK.

too (something) for comfort

Having more of some quality or trait than one would like or is comfortable with. Used especially in the phrase "too close for comfort." The way these planes fly so low over the house is just too close for comfort. Though the company seems to be doing well, some analysts are actually worried that its stocks are climbing too fast for comfort and could indicate a sudden sharp decrease.

too close for comfort

1. So close as to cause worry because of being dangerous or unwelcome in some way. The way these planes fly so low over the house is just too close for comfort. My neighbors and I all feel that the new shopping center they're planning near our neighborhood is a little too close for comfort.

2. Too narrow a margin for error or deviation. Having only $20 in your bank account is far too close for comfort, if you ask me.

See also: close, comfort

Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cold comfort

no comfort or consolation at all. She knows there are others worse off than her, but that's cold comfort. It was cold comfort to the student that others had failed as he had done.

See also: cold, comfort

creature comforts

things that make people comfortable. The hotel room was a bit small, but all the creature comforts were there.

See also: comfort, creature

There, there.

and There, now.

an expression used to comfort someone. There, there. You'll feel better after you take a nap. There, now. Everything will be all right.

too close for comfort

Cliché [for a misfortune or a threat] to be dangerously close. That car nearly hit me! That was too close for comfort. When I was in the hospital, I nearly died from pneumonia. Believe me, that was too close for comfort.

See also: close, comfort

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

cold comfort

Slight or no consolation. For example, He can't lend us his canoe but will tell us where to rent one-that's cold comfort. The adjective cold was being applied to comfort in this sense by the early 1300s, and Shakespeare used the idiom numerous times.

See also: cold, comfort

creature comfort

Something that contributes to physical comfort, such as food, clothing, or housing. For example, Dean always stayed in the best hotels; he valued his creature comforts. This idiom was first recorded in 1659.

See also: comfort, creature

too close for comfort

Also, too close to home. Dangerously nearby or accurate, as in That last shot was too close for comfort, or Their attacks on the speaker hit too close to home, and he left in a huff.

See also: close, comfort

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

cold comfort

COMMON If a fact or statement is cold comfort to someone in a difficult situation, it does not make them feel less worried or sad. `Three years in higher education is a good investment for the future,' he says. But that is cold comfort to graduates who have worked so hard to get a degree, and now find themselves unemployed.

See also: cold, comfort

too close/high, etc. for comfort

COMMON If something is too close/high, etc. for comfort, it is closer/higher, etc. than you would like it to be or than is safe. The bombs fell in the sea, many too close for comfort. Levels of crime were still too high for comfort.

See also: close, comfort

creature comforts

Creature comforts are all the modern sleeping, eating, and washing facilities that make life easy and pleasant. Each room has its own patio or balcony and provides guests with all modern creature comforts. I'm not a camper — I like my creature comforts too much. Note: An old meaning of `creatures' is material comforts, or things that make you feel comfortable.

See also: comfort, creature

Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

too close for comfort

dangerously or uncomfortably near.

See also: close, comfort

cold comfort

poor or inadequate consolation.

This expression, together with the previous idiom, reflects a traditional view that charity is often given in a perfunctory or uncaring way. The words cold (as the opposite of ‘encouraging’) and comfort have been associated since the early 14th century, but perhaps the phrase is most memorably linked for modern readers with the title of Stella Gibbons 's 1933 parody of sentimental novels of rural life, Cold Comfort Farm.

See also: cold, comfort

too — for comfort

causing physical or mental unease by an excess of the specified quality.

1994 Janice Galloway Foreign Parts They were all too at peace with themselves, too untroubled for comfort.

too close for ˈcomfort

so near that you become afraid or anxious: The exams are getting a bit too close for comfort.

See also: close, comfort

ˌcold ˈcomfort

a thing that is intended to make you feel better but which does not: When you’ve just had your car stolen, it’s cold comfort to be told it happens to somebody every day.

See also: cold, comfort

Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

comfort station

1. n. a restroom; toilet facilities available to the public. (Euphemistic.) We need to stop and find a comfort station in the next town.

2. n. an establishment that sells liquor. Let’s get some belch at a comfort station along here somewhere.

close call/shave, a

A narrow escape, a near miss. Both phrases are originally American. The first dates from the 1880s and is thought to come from sports, where a close call was a decision by an umpire or referee that could have gone either way. A close shave is from the early nineteenth century and reflects the narrow margin between smoothly shaved skin and a nasty cut from the razor. Both were transferred to mean any narrow escape from danger. Incidentally, a close shave was in much earlier days equated with miserliness. Erasmus’s 1523 collection of adages has it, “He shaves right to the quick,” meaning he makes the barber give him a very close shave so that he will not need another for some time. Two synonymous modern clichés are too close for comfort and too close to home.

cold comfort

That’s little or no consolation. “Colde watz his cumfort,” reads a poem of unknown authorship written about 1325. The alliterative phrase appealed to Shakespeare, who used it a number of times (in King John, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew). It acquired cliché status by about 1800. Stella Gibbons used it in the title of her humorous book Cold Comfort Farm (1932).

See also: cold, comfort

creature comforts

Life’s material amenities. The term dates from the seventeenth century; it appears in Thomas Brooks’s Collected Works (1670), and again in Matthew Henry’s 1710 Commentaries on the Psalms (“They have . . . the sweetest relish of their creature comforts”).

See also: comfort, creature

The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer

cold comfort

Offering limited sympathy or encouragement. People who lost their jobs during the recession would likely take cold comfort from economic reports that an upturn was likely to occur in the future. Shakespeare used the phrase in King John: “I do not ask you much, I beg cold comfort; and you are so strait / And so ingrateful, you deny me that.”

See also: cold, comfort

Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price

See also:

(one's) comfort zone
comfort zone
zone
the faint of heart
faint of heart
panic (one) by (doing something)
panic by
tremble with
tremble with (something)
panic at

References in periodicals archive

The newly constructed, four-story, 84-room Comfort Suites Marysville Columbus - Northwest is the latest to open as part of the brand's multi-year transformation, featuring rooms and public spaces with a modern design, as well as the new Comfort logo.

Comfort On Pace To Open More Than One Hotel Per Week In 2019; Latest Hotel Opens its Doors Near Columbus, Ohio

The Founder/CEO, Mr Samsom Oluseyi Ayangbayi who visited some orphanages as part of his birthday celebration flagged Comfort Homes with the aim to bring succur to the needy and the underprivilagedsociety.

Comfort Homes Donates Food Items To FOMWAN Orphanage

All are welcome to "Lenten Tidings of Comfort and Joy," an organ recital based on hymns of comfort combined with hymn singing and readings from God's Word by the Rev.

Meet comfort dogs at Lenten organ recital

He said under the bill, the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW) will be designated to determine the authenticity of the identities of comfort women and assist them in the application for the compensation and benefits.

Move to grant pension, health benefits for Comfort Women gains ground in House

St Luke's medical director Dr Andrea Graham personally wrote to supporters in November asking them to donate to the Patient Comfort Christmas Appeal.

Appeal hits PS32k funding target

Furthermore, three main thermal comfort standards which are ASHRAE 55 Standard, ISO 7730 and EN 15251 considered the thermal comfort for MM buildings differently.

Predicting Thermal Comfort in Mixed-mode Office Building in the UK

9-10 showing Mitsuhiko Fujii, a member of the so called "Alliance for Truth about Comfort Women" kicking a statue commemorating Taiwanese comfort women.

Taiwanese protest comfort woman statue kick in Taipei

Patient comfort is usually defined as the absence of discomfort and/or feeling of physical or mental pleasure [2].

EVALUATION OF COMFORT LEVEL IN PATIENTS WITH IMMOBILIZATION/PROCENA NIVOA KOMFORA PACIJENATA SA POSTAVLJENOM IMOBILIZACIJO

Which is why Eden Cheese is taking over the city with the comfort food we're all familiar with.

Warm hugs on the go

However, PWDs are still the priority in the said comfort room.

Gender-neutral CR opens at SP

The victims of sex slavery during the Japanese occupation of Korea have expressed disappointment in the Moon Jae-in administration's handling of comfort women issues, advocacy groups said Wednesday.

Moon's handling of comfort women issue disappoints victims

COMFORT From PS10 per person depending on the date of your break.

FANTASTIC ACCOMMODATION CHOICES

Mississauga, Canada, October 20, 2017 --(PR.com)-- Comfort Life is releasing its 15th annual guide to retirement through the Globe and Mail, tomorrow.

Comfort Life Magazine Released: Find the Best Places to Retire in Canada

The "comfort women" is an historical black scar on the face of Japan and the feud has not been washed out despite diplomatic efforts and Japan's political normalization with South Korea since 1965.

Japan Can't Wash "Comfort Women" Out of Hair

词组	comfort
释义	comfort (one's) comfort zone 1. A place, activity, situation, or psychological state in which a person feels free from anxiety and is within their of ability, experience, security, and/or control. Though it is often outside your comfort zone, traveling to foreign countries gives you a much greater perspective on how other people in the world live. The new job is a little out of my comfort zone, but it will give me a great opportunity to see what I'm truly capable of. See also: comfort, zone a beam of (something) informal A small but steadfast amount or source of something hopeful or positive. My lovely daughter has been a beam of joy in such a trying year of hardship. The charity is the sole beam of comfort to the many people displaced by war who have been reduced to such squalid conditions. See also: beam, of be cold comfort To fail as an intended source of solace. The news that I got a meager raise is cold comfort after not getting that big promotion. The fact that it's "stage one" is cold comfort to me—it's still cancer! See also: cold, comfort cold comfort Something that has failed as an intended source of solace. The news that I got a meager raise is cold comfort after not getting that big promotion. The fact that it's "stage one" is cold comfort to me—it's still cancer! See also: cold, comfort comfort food Particular dishes or food items that are meant to ease emotional pain upon consumption, as by reminding one of home or childhood. Often, such food is high in calories or carbohydrates. Did Mom make mac and cheese tonight? I'm definitely in need of some comfort food. What's your favorite comfort food? Mine is poutine. See also: comfort, food comfort girl slang A woman or girl forced into sexual slavery or recruited into prostitution by and in service of the Japanese Imperial Army before and during World War II. Although the Japanese government officially admitted to its role in coercing women to become comfort girls during the Second World War, there are still many who deny how many women were affected and the extent to which the government was responsible at the time. See also: comfort, girl comfort station A public bathroom. I sure hope there's a comfort station at this next rest stop! See also: comfort, station comfort woman slang A woman or girl forced into sexual slavery or recruited into prostitution by and in service of the Japanese Imperial Army before and during World War II. Although the Japanese government officially admitted to its role in coercing women to become comfort women during the Second World War, there are still many who deny how many were affected and the extent to which the government was responsible at the time. See also: comfort, woman comfort zone 2. The temperature range wherein the human body feels naturally comfortable, being neither too hot nor too cold. Many retired Americans, being more sensitive to the cold, settle in Florida, where the balmy weather better suits their comfort zones. See also: comfort, zone creature comforts Things that one needs in order to feel happy and comfortable. I have a hard time abandoning my creature comforts to go hiking and camping. At a minimum, I need running water! See also: comfort, creature take comfort in (something) To be soothed or calmed by something. I know this trial has been tremendously hard on you, but take comfort in the fact that the man responsible is now behind bars forever. When things get tough, I take comfort in the company of my closest friends. See also: comfort, take there, there A phrase used to soothe one who is upset. There, there, sweetie. Everything is going to be OK. See also: there too (something) for comfort Having more of some quality or trait than one would like or is comfortable with. Used especially in the phrase "too close for comfort." The way these planes fly so low over the house is just too close for comfort. Though the company seems to be doing well, some analysts are actually worried that its stocks are climbing too fast for comfort and could indicate a sudden sharp decrease. See also: comfort too close for comfort 1. So close as to cause worry because of being dangerous or unwelcome in some way. The way these planes fly so low over the house is just too close for comfort. My neighbors and I all feel that the new shopping center they're planning near our neighborhood is a little too close for comfort. 2. Too narrow a margin for error or deviation. Having only $20 in your bank account is far too close for comfort, if you ask me. See also: close, comfort Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. cold comfort no comfort or consolation at all. She knows there are others worse off than her, but that's cold comfort. It was cold comfort to the student that others had failed as he had done. See also: cold, comfort creature comforts things that make people comfortable. The hotel room was a bit small, but all the creature comforts were there. See also: comfort, creature There, there. and There, now. an expression used to comfort someone. There, there. You'll feel better after you take a nap. There, now. Everything will be all right. See also: there too close for comfort Cliché [for a misfortune or a threat] to be dangerously close. That car nearly hit me! That was too close for comfort. When I was in the hospital, I nearly died from pneumonia. Believe me, that was too close for comfort. See also: close, comfort McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. cold comfort Slight or no consolation. For example, He can't lend us his canoe but will tell us where to rent one-that's cold comfort. The adjective cold was being applied to comfort in this sense by the early 1300s, and Shakespeare used the idiom numerous times. See also: cold, comfort creature comfort Something that contributes to physical comfort, such as food, clothing, or housing. For example, Dean always stayed in the best hotels; he valued his creature comforts. This idiom was first recorded in 1659. See also: comfort, creature too close for comfort Also, too close to home. Dangerously nearby or accurate, as in That last shot was too close for comfort, or Their attacks on the speaker hit too close to home, and he left in a huff. See also: close, comfort The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. cold comfort COMMON If a fact or statement is cold comfort to someone in a difficult situation, it does not make them feel less worried or sad. `Three years in higher education is a good investment for the future,' he says. But that is cold comfort to graduates who have worked so hard to get a degree, and now find themselves unemployed. See also: cold, comfort too close/high, etc. for comfort COMMON If something is too close/high, etc. for comfort, it is closer/higher, etc. than you would like it to be or than is safe. The bombs fell in the sea, many too close for comfort. Levels of crime were still too high for comfort. See also: close, comfort creature comforts Creature comforts are all the modern sleeping, eating, and washing facilities that make life easy and pleasant. Each room has its own patio or balcony and provides guests with all modern creature comforts. I'm not a camper — I like my creature comforts too much. Note: An old meaning of `creatures' is material comforts, or things that make you feel comfortable. See also: comfort, creature Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. too close for comfort dangerously or uncomfortably near. See also: close, comfort cold comfort poor or inadequate consolation. This expression, together with the previous idiom, reflects a traditional view that charity is often given in a perfunctory or uncaring way. The words cold (as the opposite of ‘encouraging’) and comfort have been associated since the early 14th century, but perhaps the phrase is most memorably linked for modern readers with the title of Stella Gibbons 's 1933 parody of sentimental novels of rural life, Cold Comfort Farm. See also: cold, comfort too — for comfort causing physical or mental unease by an excess of the specified quality. 1994 Janice Galloway Foreign Parts They were all too at peace with themselves, too untroubled for comfort. See also: comfort Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary too close for ˈcomfort so near that you become afraid or anxious: The exams are getting a bit too close for comfort. See also: close, comfort ˌcold ˈcomfort a thing that is intended to make you feel better but which does not: When you’ve just had your car stolen, it’s cold comfort to be told it happens to somebody every day. See also: cold, comfort Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary comfort station 1. n. a restroom; toilet facilities available to the public. (Euphemistic.) We need to stop and find a comfort station in the next town. 2. n. an establishment that sells liquor. Let’s get some belch at a comfort station along here somewhere. See also: comfort, station McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions close call/shave, a A narrow escape, a near miss. Both phrases are originally American. The first dates from the 1880s and is thought to come from sports, where a close call was a decision by an umpire or referee that could have gone either way. A close shave is from the early nineteenth century and reflects the narrow margin between smoothly shaved skin and a nasty cut from the razor. Both were transferred to mean any narrow escape from danger. Incidentally, a close shave was in much earlier days equated with miserliness. Erasmus’s 1523 collection of adages has it, “He shaves right to the quick,” meaning he makes the barber give him a very close shave so that he will not need another for some time. Two synonymous modern clichés are too close for comfort and too close to home. See also: call, close cold comfort That’s little or no consolation. “Colde watz his cumfort,” reads a poem of unknown authorship written about 1325. The alliterative phrase appealed to Shakespeare, who used it a number of times (in King John, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew). It acquired cliché status by about 1800. Stella Gibbons used it in the title of her humorous book Cold Comfort Farm (1932). See also: cold, comfort creature comforts Life’s material amenities. The term dates from the seventeenth century; it appears in Thomas Brooks’s Collected Works (1670), and again in Matthew Henry’s 1710 Commentaries on the Psalms (“They have . . . the sweetest relish of their creature comforts”). See also: comfort, creature The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer cold comfort Offering limited sympathy or encouragement. People who lost their jobs during the recession would likely take cold comfort from economic reports that an upturn was likely to occur in the future. Shakespeare used the phrase in King John: “I do not ask you much, I beg cold comfort; and you are so strait / And so ingrateful, you deny me that.” See also: cold, comfort Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price See also: (one's) comfort zone comfort zone zone the faint of heart faint of heart panic (one) by (doing something) panic by tremble with tremble with (something) panic at References in periodicals archive The newly constructed, four-story, 84-room Comfort Suites Marysville Columbus - Northwest is the latest to open as part of the brand's multi-year transformation, featuring rooms and public spaces with a modern design, as well as the new Comfort logo. Comfort On Pace To Open More Than One Hotel Per Week In 2019; Latest Hotel Opens its Doors Near Columbus, Ohio The Founder/CEO, Mr Samsom Oluseyi Ayangbayi who visited some orphanages as part of his birthday celebration flagged Comfort Homes with the aim to bring succur to the needy and the underprivilagedsociety. Comfort Homes Donates Food Items To FOMWAN Orphanage All are welcome to "Lenten Tidings of Comfort and Joy," an organ recital based on hymns of comfort combined with hymn singing and readings from God's Word by the Rev. Meet comfort dogs at Lenten organ recital He said under the bill, the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW) will be designated to determine the authenticity of the identities of comfort women and assist them in the application for the compensation and benefits. Move to grant pension, health benefits for Comfort Women gains ground in House St Luke's medical director Dr Andrea Graham personally wrote to supporters in November asking them to donate to the Patient Comfort Christmas Appeal. Appeal hits PS32k funding target Furthermore, three main thermal comfort standards which are ASHRAE 55 Standard, ISO 7730 and EN 15251 considered the thermal comfort for MM buildings differently. Predicting Thermal Comfort in Mixed-mode Office Building in the UK 9-10 showing Mitsuhiko Fujii, a member of the so called "Alliance for Truth about Comfort Women" kicking a statue commemorating Taiwanese comfort women. Taiwanese protest comfort woman statue kick in Taipei Patient comfort is usually defined as the absence of discomfort and/or feeling of physical or mental pleasure [2]. EVALUATION OF COMFORT LEVEL IN PATIENTS WITH IMMOBILIZATION/PROCENA NIVOA KOMFORA PACIJENATA SA POSTAVLJENOM IMOBILIZACIJO Which is why Eden Cheese is taking over the city with the comfort food we're all familiar with. Warm hugs on the go However, PWDs are still the priority in the said comfort room. Gender-neutral CR opens at SP The victims of sex slavery during the Japanese occupation of Korea have expressed disappointment in the Moon Jae-in administration's handling of comfort women issues, advocacy groups said Wednesday. Moon's handling of comfort women issue disappoints victims COMFORT From PS10 per person depending on the date of your break. FANTASTIC ACCOMMODATION CHOICES Mississauga, Canada, October 20, 2017 --(PR.com)-- Comfort Life is releasing its 15th annual guide to retirement through the Globe and Mail, tomorrow. Comfort Life Magazine Released: Find the Best Places to Retire in Canada The "comfort women" is an historical black scar on the face of Japan and the feud has not been washed out despite diplomatic efforts and Japan's political normalization with South Korea since 1965. Japan Can't Wash "Comfort Women" Out of Hair
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