Brass-monkeys Definition

adjective

(UK, idiomatic, informal) Very cold.

Blimey, it's brass monkeys out there today.
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Origin of Brass-monkeys

  • 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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