| 词组 | brass-monkey |
| 释义 | brass-monkey adjective (of weather) bitterly cold UK, 1857 May be of nautical origin but the popular etymology involving powder monkeys and cannon balls remains unproven. Usually as “brass-monkeys” or “brass-monkey weather”; from the phrase “cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey”.
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