A naval term for the frame that held a pile of cannon balls on the deck of fighting ships. If it got really cold, the metal would contract and the cannon balls would roll loose, hence the expression, freeze the balls off a brass monkey.
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whats the brass monkey?
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minus 24 degrees? Oh, my goodness, that's incredible. They do say to watch out for temperature extremes as a result of global warming....
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