be cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
- Fuente de la expresión
- Dictionary Cambrigde
- Expresión pronominalizada
- To be cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
- Variantes
- Brass monkey weather
- Contexto
- I went into a house this morning that was cold enough to freeze the balls off of a brass monkey
- Fuente del contexto
- Dictionary
- Tipo de fuente
- Página web
- Autor
- The Free Dictionary
- Año
- 2021
- Web
- https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/cold+enough+to+freeze+the+balls+off+a+brass+monkey
- Observaciones
- This expresion comes from comes from the practice of putting iron cannon balls on a dimpled brass plate on the deck of a war-ship. "Brass monkey" did have a meaning in a naval context, but a monkey (or munkey) was a kind of gun, which might be either brass or iron. This expression, which is normally used in relation to the weather is also known by the derivative phrase - brass monkey weather.
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Vulgar
- Marca dialectal
- Dialectal British English
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente