brass monkeys
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English
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).
Pronunciation
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Adjective
brass monkeys (not comparable)
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, idiomatic, informal) Very cold.
- Blimey, it's brass monkeys out there today.