It is often stated that the phrase originated from the use of a certain metallic tray, called a "____", to hold cannonballs on warships in the 16th to 18th centuries. Supposedly, in very cold temperatures the "___" would contract, causing people to remark, " ___X___"
Later on, a humorist personified this phrase in the form of a patent for the picture below. He says that it works upon the conditions and principles of the phrase __X__, such that when a preset optimum climatic conditions are achieved, it shall cause a noise, emanating from the result of the phrase, as an indication that it is "_____X______"
SO ID X, the phrase in question (or in reply to the question asked)
(Filling in the blank would only give you part of the phrase)
Freeze the balls off the brass monkey! XD
ReplyDeleteX is "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey"
ReplyDeletetray is called "monkey"
"balls" would contract
Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.
ReplyDelete"Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey"
ReplyDeletefreeze the balls off a brass monkey, nice one
ReplyDeleteBrass Monkey
ReplyDeletethe phrase is "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey"......the cannonball tray thingy was made of brass and was called a monkey
ReplyDeleteshould have got this one, knew it!
ReplyDelete