词组 | brass-monkey |
释义 | brass-monkey adjective (of weather) bitterly cold. 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' UK, 1857 |
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