According to popular tradition (which I am not defending), northerners are more likely to be thrifty, dour, cold, honest, hard-working, plain-speaking, blunt, rigid in their morality and a bit unfriendly to outsiders.
In this situation, you'll need to be incredibly blunt, telling the cold, honest truth.
Its ice-cold, honest martinis make the perfect foil for the towering platters of fresh, chilled shellfish stacked on crushed ice.
So this makes it high time for Europeans to take a cold and honest look at the British.
"Be memory, be conscience, be will and rage", urges the poet, "And keep me cold and honest, cousin coat, / So if I lie, I'll know you're at my throat".
It is also noted by critics that, in the fifth season, "it doesn't take long for Illyria to become a version of Cordelia, giving everyone the cold and honest truth whether they want it or not".
Using points, they can claim items including cold bottles of Honest Tea, T-shirts, tickets to concerts and Broadway shows, yoga mats and skateboards.
"I was a bit cold to be honest," said Taylor, trying to explain how he squandered his opportunities, including a header that hit the post.
When John Kerry famously asked about Vietnam, "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" he was right to suggest that Vietnam was, in part, an honest Cold War "mistake" (although as the Johnson tapes also show, it was also, in part, a deliberately craven effort to protect a president's "strong" credentials).
If they ask why you're giving them the cold shoulder, be honest.
Anyway, the piece never ran because let's be honest, in the cold light of day, who really wants to read about me having a bit too much to drink with Lee Chapman?
