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To: Barney who wrote (17574)	1/7/2001 12:43:09 AM
From: jERRY Ö¿Ö	Read Replies (1) of 62549

brass-monkeys adj British extremely cold. A shortening of 'brass-monkey time' or 'brass-monkey weather', this phrase refers to the widely known vulgar saying 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey!'. A rather far-fetched explanation of the catchphrase is that a 'brass monkey' was a rack of cannonballs on board a warship. Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, © Tony Thorne 1997

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