Just as my cooking was turning around, on came a rather nasty cold.
'You'll be giving that nasty cold of yours to about a million people all over the country!'
But being the victim of this kind of crime is like having a nasty cold.
He was confident as ever that he wasn't suffering from anything more serious than a nasty cold.
Coincidentally (or not, my therapist said), I caught a nasty cold a week before the wedding.
It was clear enough that the man had a nasty cold.
If you're training for 10K or a marathon, you don't want to halt your preparation because of a nasty cold.
Then she had caught a very nasty cold which would not budge.
If you've ever had to work through a nasty cold, you may have asked yourself why you ended up so sick in the first place.
She caught a nasty cold while on holiday, and has been in bed for a week.