But I actually associate it with wind as much as temperature, which contributes to the feeling of cold. is to mean cold but not overwhelmingly cold. The way brisk is usually used in the U.S. One person's cold is another person's very cold. I think temperature is a bit in the eye (or skin) of the beholder. Second (=and then), the temperature dropped.", and using "to begin with" to list the facts.? (2) By "begin with," would it mean that it was cold at the night, right from the beginning of it (perhaps right from the hour when the night begins, after sunset)? Or is it perhaps similar to saying " First (=to begin with), the night was cold. (1) Would "brisk" here perhaps mean "cold but agreeable"? Or "cold to the point of unpleasantness, very cold".? In this part, I wonder what the underlined sentence means, especially what "to begin with" means. Finding a fur coat in the abandoned vehicle, Deputy Chief Constable Kenward (who is in charge of the investigation of the disappearance of Agatha) mutters to himself as to why one should leave a fur coat in the vehicle on a brisk night. In this scene, set in 1926, the narrator Archie sees that his missing wife Agatha's car-the Morris Cowley-is abandoned in the bush near the Silent Pool. The story is mainly set at the present time in 1926, when Agatha Christie suddenly went missing for eleven days, but also goes back to the past time in the 1910's. This is a mystery novel published in the United States in 2020. Wouldn’t a warm fur coat like that have been welcome if you’d had the choice to wear it? The chance to put it on?”
“ It was a brisk night to begin with, and then the temperature dropped from forty-one degrees at six o’clock last evening to thirty-six degrees at midnight. “Odd that,” Kenward mutters, almost to himself. I would like to know what "It was a brisk night to begin with" means in the following sentences:
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