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Brass monkey   /bræs mˈəŋki/   Listen
Brass monkey

noun
1.
A metal stand that formerly held cannon balls on sailing ships.






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"Brass monkey" Quotes from Famous Books



... was looking after Min. 'Sides, as I told yez, I don't know nithing about kids. Old Mrs. Billy Crawford, she was here when it was born and she washed it and rolled it up in that flannel, and Jen she's tended it a bit since. The critter is warm enough. This weather would melt a brass monkey." ...
— Rilla of Ingleside • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... faces. And at Sebastopol, sir, fichtre! you wouldn't have said it was the pleasantest place in the world. The wind blew fit to take a man's hair out by the roots, it was cold enough to freeze a brass monkey, and those beggars kept us on a continual dance with their feints and sorties. Never mind; we made them dance in the end; we danced them into the big hot frying pan, and to quick music, too! And Solferino, you were not there, sir! then why do you speak of it? Yes, at Solferino, where it ...
— The Downfall • Emile Zola

... Chester, you'll be the death of me some day, if you go on like this," resumed my would-be tormentor; "your touching innocence would move a brass monkey to tears. Why," he continued, looking round and addressing in low, measured tones, intended to express overwhelming astonishment, the fragment of glass which still clung to one corner of its frame, and, hanging suspended ...
— Under the Meteor Flag - Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War • Harry Collingwood



Words linked to "Brass monkey" :   stand, base, pedestal



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