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peoplelover i was just about to log off and i noticed you posted the question, i still don't know, see ya , good night

11 years ago. Rating: 8
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I thought the expression was freezing the balls off a brass monkey and I do not know the origination of same

11 years ago. Rating: 6
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I think it originates from ornaments i.e brass monkeys and a few trades people use to have them in there shop I could be wrong on this so dont hang me if I am wrong LOL

11 years ago. Rating: 5
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g.day peoplelover,i'm back . bloody hell it was cold this morning, enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. lol. i wonder what happens  to a female brass monkey?

11 years ago. Rating: 5
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Maybe from the Beastie Boys? You know the song brass monkey?

Where is Monkey when you need her? Has anyone seen her on the site lately?

11 years ago. Rating: 5
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I cheated and looked it up .... interesting. I'm betting not many know this.

11 years ago. Rating: 4
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Melandrupet: I want to tell you that I agree 100 %.  akaqa is good because it is NOT google. anybody can google but few people have acess to a cross section of answers from the people - all ages, all levels, the serious, the funny, the old, the young, the fat, the thin ... well, you know. I look some things up, of course. but i just feel sad when i go to answer a question and i see a list of all the CORRECT answers has already been posted.  there is no reason for me to be when this happens. there is no reason for any of us to be. 

If i come across a serious question like "Is this cancer?" i will tell t he person who asks that i don't know but they might find a partial answer at google, but the doctor is their best place to find the answer.

thank you for bringing this up. I haven't read the other answers yet. 

I don't know anything about the freezing brass monkey balls ... google it or call your doctor. : ) 

11 years ago. Rating: 2
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I heard the expression dates from the days when warships carried cannonballs in a brass receptacle, and when is was very cold the balls froze to the receptacle ( 'monkey' ). If this is true, the expression should be ' to freeze the balls ONTO a brass monkey'.

Do Americans use this expression?

11 years ago. Rating: 1
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To Itsmee thanks for the vote of confidence and especially thanks for "google it or call your doctor" my first laugh on a rainy Queensland morning.

Love the rain being a boy from a area that was prone to drought.

We had one occasion when it had not rained for four years and when it did all the kids under four fainted with shock and we had to throw buckets of dust over them to bring them aruond.

11 years ago. Rating: 1
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When war ship of the last centuary had large cannons & the amo was gun powder & steel balls always kept in storage near the gun called the brass monkey... When it was really freezing in the northern hemisphere the ball would freeze & fall off the storage area... Hence the saying "freeze the balls of a Brass off a brass monkey...

11 years ago. Rating: 1
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Oh, by the way ... the beetles or the stones or dylan were poet enough to write those words. You know ,goes like this ... that  blond in the corner was cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey . that's my guess and i'm sticking to it. 

Mick has a song something like this  ... she was cold, she was cold, she was soooo dam cold.

11 years ago. Rating: 0
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You get the cigar almost nomdeplume. Brass contracts more than any other metal so the balls fell off not froze too.

11 years ago. Rating: 0
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MY GREAT UNCLE CAME UP WITH IT ONE DAY WHEN IT WAS MUCH COLDER THAN A WITCHES TITTY IN A BRASS BRA 

11 years ago. Rating: 0
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