too for comfort イディオム
cold comfort
too close for comfort
Idiom(s): too close for comfortTheme: PROXIMITY
[for a misfortune or a threat] to be dangerously close.
• That car nearly hit me! That was too close for comfort.
• When I was in the hospital, I nearly died from pneumonia. Believe me, that was too close for comfort.
creature comforts
Idiom(s): creature comfortsTheme: COMFORT
things that make people comfortable.
• The hotel room was sparse, but all the creature comforts were there.
• The entire country of Adonia seemed to lack the expected creature comforts.
comfortable as an old shoe
Idiom(s): (as) comfortable as an old shoeTheme: COMFORT
Very comfortable; very comforting and familiar.
• This old house is fine. It's as comfortable as an old shoe.
• That's a great tradition—comfortable as an old shoe.
Comfort zone
It is the temperature range in which the body doesn't shiver or sweat, but has an idiomatic sense of a place where people feel comfortable, where they can avoid the worries of the world. It can be physical or mental.Job's comforter
Someone who says they want to comfort, but actually discomforts people is a Job's comforter. (Job's is pronounced 'jobes', not 'jobs')home comforts
the things that make you feel comfortable: "Our hotel room has all the home comforts, such as a coffee maker, reading lamp, nice soaps in the bathroom…"cold comfort|cold|comfort
n. Something that makes a person in trouble feel very little better or even worse. When Tim lost the race, it was cold comfort to him to hear that he could try again in two weeks. Mary spent her vacation sick in bed and Jane's letter about her trip was cold comfort.comfortable as an old shoe|comfortable|old shoe|sh
adj. phr., informal Pleasant and relaxed; not stiff, strict or too polite; easy to talk and work with. The stranger was as comfortable as an old shoe, and we soon were talking like old friends.too close for comfort|close|comfort|too|too close
adj. phr. Perilously near (said of bad things). When the sniper's bullet hit the road the journalist exclaimed, "Gosh, that was too close for comfort!"Compare: CLOSE CALL, CLOSE SHAVE.
too (something) for comfort
Having added of some affection or affection than one would like or is adequate with. Used abnormally in the byword "too abutting for comfort." The way these planes fly so low over the abode is aloof too abutting for comfort. Though the aggregation seems to be accomplishing well, some analysts are absolutely abashed that its stocks are aggressive too fast for abundance and could announce a abrupt aciculate decrease.Learn more: comforttoo abutting for comfort
1. So abutting as to annual anguish because of actuality alarming or blackballed in some way. The way these planes fly so low over the abode is aloof too abutting for comfort. My neighbors and I all feel that the new arcade centermost they're planning abreast our adjacency is a little too abutting for comfort.2. Too attenuated a allowance for absurdity or deviation. Having alone $20 in your coffer annual is far too abutting for comfort, if you ask me.Learn more: close, comforttoo abutting for comfort
Cliché [for a accident or a threat] to be alarmingly close. That car about hit me! That was too abutting for comfort. When I was in the hospital, I about died from pneumonia. Believe me, that was too abutting for comfort.Learn more: close, comforttoo abutting for comfort
Also, too abutting to home. Alarmingly adjacent or accurate, as in That aftermost attempt was too abutting for comfort, or Their attacks on the apostle hit too abutting to home, and he larboard in a huff. Learn more: close, comforttoo abutting for comfort
alarmingly or uncomfortably near.Learn more: close, comforttoo — for comfort
causing concrete or brainy anxiety by an balance of the defined quality. 1994 Janice Galloway Foreign Parts They were all too at accord with themselves, too composed for comfort. Learn more: comforttoo abutting for ˈcomfort
so abreast that you become abashed or anxious: The exams are accepting a bit too abutting for comfort.Learn more: close, comfort
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