"I believe that in India "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy."
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Mark Twain in: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World: Easyread Large Bold Edition, ReadHowYouWant.com, 5 November 2008 , p. 186.
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