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be cold comfort
idiom
When being told a particular thing about a bad situation is cold comfort, it does not make you feel better although it is intended to.无法令人觉得欣慰；于事无补
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Saddening, shocking and upsetting
affecting
agonizingly
arrogance
baleful
bombast
distressful
distressfully
distressing
distressingly
dolorous
hurtful
hurtfully
impiously
impiousness
lacerating
teary
touching
touchingly
tragically
traumatic
But it was cold comfort to know that the desire to give and to receive love had twice over left her—a dead woman.
He tried to comfort himself by the exercise of his usual philosophy, but it was cold comfort.
It is cold comfort for a hungry man, to tell him how delightfully his wife plays and sings.
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