FYI

penguin

November 13, 2019 06:50

The story goes that cannonballs used to be stored aboard ship in piles, on a brass frame or tray called a 'monkey'. In very cold weather the brass would contract, spilling the cannonballs: hence very cold weather is 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'.

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  bustedknee

  November 13, 2019 11:28

  Explain this:
  
  It was cold enough to freeze the brass monkey off a well digging witch.

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  pulsarnc

  November 13, 2019 11:58

  I was once married to the witch . She could give you a look cold enough to freeze anything off! I also worked as a well driller for many years . We were working on the shore of Chesapeake bay during the great freeze of 1977. I can testify as to how cold a welldiggers ass gets when the bay is frozen over and you can walk on it !😂

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  brier-49

  November 13, 2019 12:56

  

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