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to freeze your tush

to freeze your tush

9.9
To make your bottom very cold by sitting or staying outside in cold weather
  • idiom
  • /friz jʊr tʊʃ/
  • Informal
translation icon : congelar el trasero
  • She forgot her blanket and nearly froze her tush at the football game.

Examples

  • If you sit on the metal bleachers without a jacket, you'll freeze your tush.

  • We froze our tushes off waiting for the bus in that snowstorm.

  • If you wear those shorts outside in winter, you'll freeze your tush.

  • Don't freeze your tush on the ice!

  • She froze her tush on the cold bench.

  • Make sure to wrap up warm, or you'll freeze your tush waiting for the bus in this cold weather.

  • He forgot to bring a seat cushion, and after an hour, he started to freeze his tush on the hard ground.

Synonyms

to freeze
vsto freeze your tush
245 1.0

Make part of the body numb with a cold spray before treatment

refers to that same coldness but limited to the part you sit on

Antonyms

to comfort
172 1.0

To make someone feel less upset or in pain

to warm up
85 1.6

Become or make something less cold

How Cold

to freeze
770 1.0
to freeze your tush
  • Informal
9.9

Surface Forms

freeze your tush infinitive

Morphology

freeze + your + tush

The meaning is directly compositional: 'freeze' (become very cold) + 'your' + 'tush' (buttocks) yields 'make your buttocks very cold.' Although 'tush' is informal/slang, a learner who knows that word and the other constituents will readily derive the literal meaning. This follows common English patterns of freezing + body part and is therefore transparent to a B1 learner.

Etymology

Freeze your tush paints a simple picture: sit outside in cold weather and your tush, meaning your bottom, can become very cold. So it means 'to make your buttocks very cold' or simply 'to be very cold from sitting or being outside'.