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penguin1penguin1 Member Posts: 97 ✭
edited November 2019 in General Discussion
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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  • bustedkneebustedknee Member Posts: 2,001 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Explain this:

    It was cold enough to freeze the brass monkey off a well digging witch.
    I can't believe they misspelled "Pork and Beans!"
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  • pulsarncpulsarnc Member Posts: 6,559 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    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 * gets when the bay is frozen over and you can walk on it !😂
    cry Havoc and let slip  the dogs of war..... 
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  • brier-49brier-49 Member Posts: 7,103 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
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