The phrase "a cold hand" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a hand that feels cold to the touch, often in a literal sense or to convey a sense of unease or foreboding.
Example: "As she reached out to shake his hand, she was taken aback by the cold hand that met hers."
Alternatives: "a chilly hand" or "an icy hand".
The feeling of a cold hand of fear on the back of my neck, always present, can only intensify.
More than a hundred and fifty pages had to be cut from the novel, some with real regret, some with a cold hand.
Reading these words by Wang Peisan's dead husband gave me a shock, like a cold hand pressing on the back of my neck.
Marcum felt "numbness and tingling and a cold hand" again Saturday, but he said he would try for now to pitch through it.
Like those sensation novels of the 19th century, The Girl on the Train plays on us like a cold hand on our shoulder as we read.
A cold hand was inside him, yanking at his lungs, squeezing and bunching and pulling the meat there up into his throat, so that he couldn't breathe.
The Bikers, however, who are only half north-western, make a white sauce with flour, milk and cream; Manchester girl Boggiano mixes her cheese with creme fraiche; and Kentish lad Bates goes for a kind of rich, cheesy quiche made from eggs and double cream, which I enjoy inordinately – but it works better as a cold, hand-held pie than the warm dinner I'm hoping for.
I looked at my boarding pass, and then looked again, and felt like a tiny cold hand had closed around my wrist.
I suspect that some advisers play an icy cold hand, either because of poor stock-picking ability or high transaction costs.
A group of pregnant women (n = 10) were tested towards the end of pregnancy (mean 36.8 ± 2.5 weeks gestation) and about 8 weeks postpartum (mean 7.8±1.5.5 weeks), together with a matched control group, with a one minute cold hand stressor test.
Pictures of the body of Rachel Whitear crumpled on a bedsit floor, her cold hand still clinging to a syringe, became a powerful anti-drugs message.
