brass monkeys
Very coldVery cold.
Meaning
1 senses(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, idiomatic, informal, not comparable)Very cold.
Blimey, it's brass monkeys out there today.
Origin
From the phrase cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey - supposedly a referencFrom 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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