See also: Brass Monkeys

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Etymology edit

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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brass monkeys (not comparable)

  1. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, idiomatic, informal) very cold
    Blimey, it's brass monkeys out there today.

Noun edit

brass monkeys

  1. plural of brass monkey