Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!
Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
The two things that are going to make you a better baker without even trying are a scale and a thermometer in your oven.
The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles o popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.
Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.
I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.
No heating system can deliver perfectly uniform temperatures throughout a house, and drafts can magnify the perceived difference in temperatures. Try walking around with a thermometer.
I have invented the Thermometer style.
