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Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey

adj, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Extremely cold. not-comparable, slang

    "It was a bitterly cold, snowy and wind-blown evening in early January when I told my son that it was, "Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey." Needless to say, he laughed and agreed with me."

Etymology

Unknown. There is a discredited theory that it refers to a brass container for cannon balls on a British man-of-war, and a somewhat more plausible theory that "brass monkey" used to refer to a cannon on a man-of-war.

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