Definitions | brass monkeys |
| adjective (wikipedia, Brass Monkey)
(pos=brass monkeys, -)
- (UK, idiom, informal) very cold
- Blimey, it's out there today.
Etymology: From the phrase cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey - supposedly a reference to the brass container for cannon balls on a British man-of-war (but this seems to have been discredited)
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