Tuesday, May 10, 2011

LANGUAGE TRIVIA … “BRASS MONKEY”

 

The saying "it's so cold out it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from the period when old cannons like those used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.

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