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Brass monkey
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English
- a cocktail of vodka, rum and orange juice, sometimes with the addition of galliano
- a kind of inexpensive liquer
- an Australian beer
- said of the weather when it is very cold.
- It's brass monkey weather today, isn't it?
Etymology
From the phrase cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
Adjective phrase
brass monkey (no comparative or superlative, used only before the noun)
Variant spellings
brass-monkey
External links
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