brass monkeys

短语

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释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    plural of brass monkey

adj.
  1. 1.

    Very cold.

    爱尔兰 英国 习语 非正式

    Blimey, it's brass monkeys out there today.

词源

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).

来源：wiktionary