Think about being outside on a winter day and how, as the cold hits, you instinctively bring in your arms and legs and tighten those muscles.

In some ways the feeling reminded me of winters in Ohio, where you spend autumn preparing for winter, and then the terrible cold hits.

The damage to Mr. Maddux was consistent with a professional hit: concise, cold, and accurate.

Of course, there are benefits every time you get a cold hit.

A cold hit is a little bit of not much to go on.

If a cold hits, I just increase my servings and it is gone in a day or less.

"We got a cold hit, Lou," Conklin said.

The cold wet hits ma legs.

And that you must protect such a garden with spruce boughs, not hemlock branches, which lose their needles as the cold hits.

That's a cold and clinical hit.