Brass monkey (colloquial expression)

Brass monkey (colloquial expression)

Jesse Russell Ronald Cohn

     

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ISBN: 978-5-5138-7800-1

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The phrase "cold enough to freeze the balls off (or on) a brass monkey" is a colloquial expression used by some English speakers. The reference to the testes (as the term balls is commonly understood to mean) of the brass monkey appears to be a 20th century variant on the expression, prefigured by a range of references to other body parts, especially the nose and tail.