Yup; cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey is the full saying. It's not rude as some people think. A brass monkey was used in the navy to keep cannon balls in place next to the cannon. They were triangular and the cannon balls were stacked on top like a pyramid. The monkey was brass, the balls were iron so in cold weather they contracted at different rates, the brass cooling and contracting faster than the cannon balls causing them to fall off

A brass monkey was a triangular device to store a pyramid of cannon balls. When the brass got to cold it would shine and the balls would tumble off. Hence the phase "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" you're welcome

"Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey". A brass monkey is a stand for holding cannonballs. If the weather gets too cold the brass contracts and the cannonballs fall off. Hence the expression.

Trish Panda...The saying is "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey " Back in the days of British navy fighting ships, the iron cannon balls were placed on brass trays with holes in so that the cannon balls would stay in place until needed. When the weather was freezing the brass would contract and the holes would be smaller, causing the balls to fall off. I hope that clarifies it for you....Most well known sayings have meanings steeped in the mists of time.

Cold enough to freeze the balls off (or on) a brass monkey" is a colloquial expression used by some English speakers to describe extremely cold weather. Basically the Brass Monkey was a brass dimpled plate used on ships to store cannonballs (stacked). In really cold weather, the brass contracted, caused the cannonballs to tumble off of it ^-^

'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey' gets shortened to 'brass monkeys'. I feel sorry for explaining this one 😅

Brass monkey junkie, that funky monkey 🎶

I tried looking it up and found nothing to indicate it’s Cockney rhyming slang, but rather just a reference to cold weather, perhaps taken from a thing which stored cannonballs.

Ayrendal.....Sorry, brass monkeys is not Cockney rhyming slang.