0 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. --
It is cold comfort for a hungry man, to tell him how delightfully his wife plays and sings.
He tried to comfort himself by the exercise of his usual philosophy, but it was cold comfort.
But it was cold comfort to know that the desire to give and to receive love had twice over left her—a dead woman.
