It’s baseball season again. And, as often as cable allows, that means getting to listen to Vin Scully. And before the first pitch there’s a passage worth noting.

bq. Welcome to SBC Park here in San Francisco, on a cool evening. It was I think 58 degrees last night when the ballgame started. It’s at least that, even a little lower I think.

In some cultures it is odd to use ‘at least’ in this context to mean ‘at least as cold’. I wonder if we could find of some examples of someone using ‘at least’ to mean ‘at least as short’ or ‘at least as light’.