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Brass Monkeys
Shep Parsec Started conversation Nov 18, 1999
The cannonballs were placed in a pyramid on top a metal tray called a monkey, uncannily enough made of brass. Because of the different rate sof contraction and expansion between brass and iron (the balls) the tray would shrink causing the balls to fall off, hence "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey".
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