cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey

形容词 adj.
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英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Extremely cold. not-comparable,slang
    — It was a bitterly cold, snowy and wind-blown evening in early January when I told my son that it was, "Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey." Needless to say, he laughed and agreed with me.

词源

Unknown. There is a discredited theory that it refers to a brass container for cannon balls on a British man-of-war, and a somewhat more plausible theory that "brass monkey" used to refer to a cannon on a man-of-war.
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