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brass monkey
noun
used in a number of figures of speech, especially as a basis for comparison US, 1857- It would take what Kipling called the nerve of a brass monkey to talk about democracy versus totalitarianism or about fighting the anti-Christ. — Geroge N. Crocker, Roosevelt’s Road to Russia, p. 85, 1959
- “It’s cold enough to breeze the balls off a brass monkey” (which has nothing to do with a monkey or its private parts, but rather the brass rings that held cannonballs on ships. — St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, p. 1, 19 January 2003
- Clem Dubose can talk the ears off a brass monkey. — Orlando (Florida) Sentinel Tribune, p. K1, 29 February 2004
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