baby, it's cold outside


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baby, it's cold outside

A phrase used to comment on cold weather or temperatures, referring to the Frank Loesser song of the same name. Ooh, baby, it’s cold outside! Turn up the heat! A: "Whew! Baby, it's cold outside!" B: "It's January in Minnesota, what did you expect?" Baby, it's cold outside! Make some room for me by the fire!
See also: cold, outside
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Baby it’s cold outside

and BICO
sent. & comp. abb. It’s cold. (From a popular, midcentury song.) Temp’s about 20. BICO! Zip up your overcoat, baby it’s cold outside.
See also: baby, cold, outside
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"Baby, it's cold outside." Whoever coined that phrase must have lived in our area.
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From his Broadway musicals Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying to his enormously popular hits Heart and Soul and Baby, It's Cold Outside, Frank Loesser captured the human experience through music.
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to Silent Night - it includes a duet with Michael Buble (Baby, It's Cold Outside) and is exactly as you might expect: a trifle schmaltzy, it's unlikely to bea perennial classic but it does the job.
Some of the songs include "I'll Be Home for Christmas," "Baby, It's Cold Outside," "Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got that Swing," "Ghost of Smokey Joe," "Holly Jolly Christmas," "Nature Boy," "Winter Wonderland," "That's Life," "Why Don't You Do Right" and "God Bless the Child."