Brewer's: Robin Hood Wind

(A). A cold thaw-wind. Tradition runs that Robin Hood used to say he could bear any cold except that which a thaw-wind brought with it.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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