Brass monkey (colloquialism)
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brass-monkey-colloquialism-167-6296934
title:
Brass monkey (colloquialism)
text:
"Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" is a colloquial expression used by some English speakers to describe extremely cold weather. The reference to the testes of the brass monkey appears to be a 20th-century variant on the expression, prefigured by a range of references to other body parts, especially the nose and tail.
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encyclopedia
description:
Colloquial expression for cold weather
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_monkey_(colloquialism)
date created:
2005-07-21T03:35:07Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T12:52:59Z
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