The phrase "feed a cold" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to suggest that one should eat well when experiencing a cold to help the body recover.
Example: "When I catch a cold, I always remember the saying: feed a cold, starve a fever."
Alternatives: "nourish a cold" or "eat well when sick."
The original quote was "If you feed a cold, you will have to starve a fever".
The traditional advice to "feed a cold and starve a fever" might have an element of truth, say scientists.
— Jeff Gordinier On the Wine Trail in Italy: Alfonso Cevola reports on the evolving nature of Barbaresco: The more things change… — Eric Asimov The Paris Review: We all know you should feed a cold.
The next year, although Lucy was still as upbeat as ever, joking about infections ("As the old saying goes: feed a cold, starve a fever … have a takeaway Nando's when you have lurgy. Or something"), Nicolette says her carers were having to do much more for her than before.
"Feed a cold and starve a fever" is a notion that dates back at least to the Middle Ages, when it was believed that maladies induced by cooler temperatures needed to be "fuelled" with fodder, and those brought on by heat were treated by starving the body of energy.
So far, so good for those who saw the Dutch research as supportive of the "Feed a cold, starve a fever" maxim.
At breakfast, there is unusual triangular black pudding - from a small producer in Thirsk - on Tim's plate ("I'm feeding a cold"), along with Wensleydale back bacon and sausages from Skipton.
There have been suggestions that it's a mistranslation and that the intended meaning was that feeding a cold would "stave off" a fever.
The model revealed that the H2O/CO2 co-electrolysis and methanation reactions can be synchronously enhanced by feeding a cold gas in counter-flow mode under pressurized conditions.
The automatic process replicates the motions of manual welding by feeding a cold filler wire into the weld area and dabbing (or oscillating) it into the welding arc.
7 8 The syndrome is characterised by head nodding determined to be atonic seizures 8 often occurring in association with feeding, a cold breeze or cold weather, and complicated by other seizure types, malnutrition and cognitive decline.
