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cold ‘This weather could freeze the balls off a brass monkey.’
Noun. Very cold weather. From the phrase, 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'. Cf. 'brassy' and 'brass monkeys'.
Facts. Ere, you've got your brass wrong!
money. From the 16th century, and a popular expression the north of England, e.g., 'where there's muck there's brass' which incidentally alluded to certain trades involving scrap, mess or waste which offered high earnings. This was also a defensive or retaliatory remark aimed at those of middle, higher or profesional classes who might look down on certain 'working class' entrepreneurs or traders. The 'where there's much there's brass' expression helped maintain and spread the populairity iof the 'brass' money slang, rather than cause it. Brass originated as slang for money by association to the colour of gold coins, and the value of brass as a scrap metal.
Adj. Of the weather or air temperature, very cold. E.g."Wear a hat and scarf, it's brass monkeys out there." See 'brass monkey weather'.
Brass neck is British slang for intensely cheeky.
Noun. Impudence, cheek, nerve. Also brass-necked (adj). [Orig. Northern dialect]
Noun. 1. Money. 2. Prostitute. Short for brass nail, rhyming slang for tail, which is itself slang for, amongst other things, a woman and prostitute.
(1) marijuana (2) to inform authority about an individuals transgression of a rule; i.e. to grass someone up, to grass on someone, "you better not grass me up".
A babbitt-lined blank of bronze that forms the bearing upon which the car rests. To brass a car is to replace one of those bearings
Brass tacks is London Cockney rhyming slang for facts.
Brass (shortened from brass nail) is slang for a prostitute. Brass is British slang for money.Brass is British slang for penniless.
Old iron and brass is London Cockney rhyming slang for grass. Old iron and brass is British military rhyming slang for a pass.
Brass monkeys is slang for very cold weather.
Brass band is London Cockney rhyming slang for hand.
Brads was th century British slang for money.
Adj. Very cold. From the phrase, 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'. Cf. 'brass monkey weather'
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v. t.
To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish.
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Utensils, ornaments, or other articles of brass.
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A brass plate engraved with a figure or device. Specifically, one used as a memorial to the dead, and generally having the portrait, coat of arms, etc.
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Lumps of pyrites or sulphuret of iron, the color of which is near to that of brass.
v. t.
To cover with grass or with turf.
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A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and Bearing.
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Species of Serranus, the sea bass and rock bass. See Sea bass.
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Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze.
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Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road.
v. i.
To produce grass.
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The two American fresh-water species of black bass (genus Micropterus). See Black bass.
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The season of fresh grass; spring.
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Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.
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of Bass
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