Britons put out by the current bout of cold weather will get little satisfaction from the thought that it could have been worse.
Then the Bloomberg City Hall, which initially saw justice in putting this man in the dock near the World Trade Center, came down with a bout of cold feet.
What's more, in a possible bout of cold feet, the stadium owners chose to slather the building with graphics rather than let the architecture speak for itself.
Unflinching is indeed the best word to describe the portrayal of Charles's off-stage existence, which includes the depiction of a 17-year heroin habit (from tentative first taste, through a potentially career-wrecking arrest, to a successful bout of cold turkey) and of the many relationships coexisting with his long-running second marriage.
So Auntie, in another bout of cold feet, has decided to throw out Land of Hope and Glory and Rule Britannia from the wind-up community singing – because they hardly represent the spirit of the age or the search for a new role in the world.
Across the continent, residents seem to have caught a collective bout of cold feet about integrating immigrants, and perhaps nowhere more so than in Germany, which has the largest number of foreigners -- 7.2 million -- although the highest percentage is in Switzerland.
It follows a bout of cold weather which saw heavy snow in parts of the UK and temperatures hovering around freezing.
The long Easter weekend is typically seen as the start of the tourism season in the UK but the bout of cold weather has brought heavy snow and temperatures hovering around freezing.
A sunburn or a bout of cold weather can leave them dry and cracked.
Bouts of severely cold weather, earthquakes, natural disasters, even the 9/11 terrorist attack on New York City exacerbate this difference, as months later the ratio of boys to girls born can decline to well below the typical ratio of 105-to-100.
