DCHP-3

frost one's lungs

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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frozen lung tissue resulting from breathing air at very low temperatures.

Quotations

1965
. . . the thermometer . . . registered 68° below zero. . . . Old timers say the horses "frost their lungs" if you drive them when the weather is too cold.