brass monkeys

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. plural of brass monkey form-of,plural
形容词 adj.
  1. Very cold. Commonwealth,Ireland,UK,idiomatic,informal
    — Blimey, it's brass monkeys out there today.

词源

词源 1
From the phrase cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey - supposedly a reference to the brass container for cannon balls on a British man-of-war (but this seems to have been discredited).
词源 2
From the phrase cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey - supposedly a reference to the brass container for cannon balls on a British man-of-war (but this seems to have been discredited).
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