head cold
Noun
Meaning
a common cold affecting the nasal passages and resulting in congestion and sneezing and headache
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Examples
A magician, on the other hand, tells people what they wish were true—that perpetual motion works, that cancer can be cured by colored lights, that a psychosis is no worse than a head cold, that they'll live forever.
Add to that a down day when I had a miserable head cold and I felt like some comfort reading, and voila, I've got some great Harlequin discoveries to share with you.
At first I was coughing up thick nasty mucus and I had a head cold with an on/off fever, but now the head cold is gone and it is just a thin, mostly clear mucus.
Unfortunately, my husband (who rarely ever gets sick!) came down with a killer head cold and wound up staying home.
"You can’t tell it from this photo, but Barack woke up on our wedding day in October, 1992 with a nasty head cold.
The common cold (also known as nasopharyngitis, rhinopharyngitis, acute coryza, head cold, or simply a cold) is a viral infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract which primarily affects the nose.