Alcohol depresses your immune system, leaving you wide open to colds and other viruses.
Houses stand ruined, their charred rafters open to the cold sky.
O'Neill strode to the microphone, an Ohio native in a full-length leather jacket open to the cold.
His study is baronial and high-ceilinged, with a window austerely open to the cold evening, but he is less forbidding than you might expect, with a quiet, calm, middle-class voice, like a senior doctor.
Here's an excerpt from Part 1, Chapter 1: "There was a doddery starry schoolmaster type veck, glasses on and his rot open to the cold nochy air".
Here's what that same sentence would look like in normal English: "There was a strange old school professor, glasses on and his mouth open to the cold night air".
From this sentence, we'd be able to immediately deduce a few things: we know that it mentions an old school professor ("schoolmaster" should give that away), he has glasses on, and some part of his body is open to the cold air (not many parts of the body can open or close, so it'd be either the eyes or the mouth (and for the sake of brevity, it's the mouth)).
Kelly's job is to oversee the preparations for the first Super Bowl in the New York area, in a stadium that will be open to potentially snowy, cold weather.
If you like a bathroom half open to the elements (cold water only), barefoot living and birds, dogs and insects serenading you at night, you've found the right place.
In the food section of one store, shanks of reindeer sit in an open cooler next to cold cuts.
