Chilly expressions: Don’t be left out in the cold!

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Both English and French have lots of expressions related to cold and winter. Think you can keep your cool as you match the English expressions to the correct French expressions below?

1. be chilled to the bone
2. make your blood run cold
3. be a real cold fish
4. be as pure as the driven snow
5. to snowball
6. skate on thin ice
7. catch a cold
8. leave someone cold
9. put something on ice
10. not make it through the winter
  
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