An extremely unpleasant, not-so-common form of the common cold. Meaning literally what it says, a severe cold which develops symptoms in phases. Unlike an average cold which might include congestion, fever, runny nose, sore throat, etc. all at once in small amounts, a phase cold develops one, generally powerful symptom at a time and generally lasts for a lengthy amount of time. A phase cold often moves in stages similar to the following:
Day 1: Sore throat developing overnight, followed by ~24 hours of scratchiness and pain.
Day 2: Lessening or complete disappearance of symptoms, the calm before the storm. Lasts ~24 hours.
Day 3: Near the end of Day 2, a runny nose begins to develop. Overnight this builds into somewhat significant congestion and a continuation of the running nose for ~24hours or more.
Day 4: Generally the climax, Phase Four consists of major congestion, and abundance of phlegm, and a decreased sense of taste, having a very "cold", unappetizing taste in one's mouth. Fever and headache sometimes correspond. This phase often lasts as long as 48hrs or more.
Day 5: The eye of the storm. Like Day 2, everything seems to get better for ~24hrs. again.
Day 6 - up to 9: The phases come and go again in reverse order, generally with a sore throat again on the last day before the phase cold disappears altogether.
*Note: Colds can often break after only a few days, all phase colds do not necessarily run their full course dependent on sleep, treatment, etc.
**Also Note: Phases may vary, this is merely an example. Irritating or painful coughing could make up a phase as easily as any of the aforementioned symptoms.
Day 1: Sore throat developing overnight, followed by ~24 hours of scratchiness and pain.
Day 2: Lessening or complete disappearance of symptoms, the calm before the storm. Lasts ~24 hours.
Day 3: Near the end of Day 2, a runny nose begins to develop. Overnight this builds into somewhat significant congestion and a continuation of the running nose for ~24hours or more.
Day 4: Generally the climax, Phase Four consists of major congestion, and abundance of phlegm, and a decreased sense of taste, having a very "cold", unappetizing taste in one's mouth. Fever and headache sometimes correspond. This phase often lasts as long as 48hrs or more.
Day 5: The eye of the storm. Like Day 2, everything seems to get better for ~24hrs. again.
Day 6 - up to 9: The phases come and go again in reverse order, generally with a sore throat again on the last day before the phase cold disappears altogether.
*Note: Colds can often break after only a few days, all phase colds do not necessarily run their full course dependent on sleep, treatment, etc.
**Also Note: Phases may vary, this is merely an example. Irritating or painful coughing could make up a phase as easily as any of the aforementioned symptoms.
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1. To slip them a mickey. To drug their beverage. To roofie them. What's this in my drink?
2. The only valid response "what's this in my drink?", "why is the van moving?", and "am I being kidnapped?"
3. A phrase to be said whenever the topic of kidnapping or the drugging of beverages is relevant.
2. The only valid response "what's this in my drink?", "why is the van moving?", and "am I being kidnapped?"
3. A phrase to be said whenever the topic of kidnapping or the drugging of beverages is relevant.
Mary: Dan will never love me back! What can I do to make him love me?
Sarah: Baby it's cold outside him. Boys love that.
Taro: Where the hell am I? Why am I tied up?
Ayano: Baby, it's cold outside..~
Kotonoha: So apparently friend Yuno slipped pills in her man's coke, tied him up, and fed him beef stew and called it "a date".
Yuri: Baby it's could outside.
Sarah: Baby it's cold outside him. Boys love that.
Taro: Where the hell am I? Why am I tied up?
Ayano: Baby, it's cold outside..~
Kotonoha: So apparently friend Yuno slipped pills in her man's coke, tied him up, and fed him beef stew and called it "a date".
Yuri: Baby it's could outside.
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Get the coldcock mug.An old, widely used phrase expressing the sentiment that revenge that is delayed, and executed well after the heat of anger has dissipated, is more satisfying than revenge taken as an immediate act of rage.
It has been frequently been claimed on the Internet to have originated in the novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. In truth, however, there are two problems with the widely circulated quotation from that book. The first is that the phrase does not appear in the novel, or anything else that de Lacois wrote. The second problem is that the French quotation used as proof is linguistically erroneous; de Lacois would never have written the words attributed to him. Thus it bears all the hallmarks of an Internet "fact" for which someone invented an authentication that seemed plausible, knowing that it would rarely be verified.
The phrase has been in use since at least the 19th century, and at least one author's use of it back then expressed to the reader that it was an already existing dictum.
Of course, how long ago it came into being in the Klingon Empire would be an interesting subject for xenolinguistic research.
It has been frequently been claimed on the Internet to have originated in the novel "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. In truth, however, there are two problems with the widely circulated quotation from that book. The first is that the phrase does not appear in the novel, or anything else that de Lacois wrote. The second problem is that the French quotation used as proof is linguistically erroneous; de Lacois would never have written the words attributed to him. Thus it bears all the hallmarks of an Internet "fact" for which someone invented an authentication that seemed plausible, knowing that it would rarely be verified.
The phrase has been in use since at least the 19th century, and at least one author's use of it back then expressed to the reader that it was an already existing dictum.
Of course, how long ago it came into being in the Klingon Empire would be an interesting subject for xenolinguistic research.
"Kirk, old friend, do you know the Klingon proverb, 'Revenge is a dish best served cold'?"
– Khan Noonien Singh in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan"
– Khan Noonien Singh in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan"
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