brass monkeys
adjEtymology
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).
Definitions
Very cold.
- Blimey, it's brass monkeys out there today.
plural of brass monkey
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA