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Amaranth | BS: It's so cold that... (76* d) | RE: BS: It's so cold that... | 14 Jan 00 |
it'll freeze the balls off a brass monkey...and before anyone gets too upset, this expression goes back to the time of Frobisher and Arctic exploration. British ships carried cannon balls on a rack made of brass, called a brass monkey. When the temperature went low enough the rack would contract enough that the balls would fall off. |