Where does "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" come from?
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Nobody actually knows where that phrase comes from.  There is an urban legend about where it came from that can be found here: http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/brass.htm
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It is a Funny Quotes or you can say One-liner thought.\ni think it is by "Fossel"
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I remember a similar poem from Peter Opie’s The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, published in 1959:\n\n"One bright day, in the middle of the night.  Two dead men got up to fight.  Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other.  A deaf policeman heard the noise and came and shot the two dead boys.  And if you don't believe this lie is true, ask the blindman, he saw it too."\n\nalong with:\n\nOnce upon a time there were two skunks; one named In, the other named Out.  Now when In was in, Out was out.  And when Out was in, In was out.  Well, one day, Out was in and In was out.  The Mother Skunk said, "Out, go out and bring In in."  So, Out went out and brought In in.  The Mother Skunk asked, "How did you find In so quick, Out?"  Out replied, "In stinked.".
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I believe it's originally from the movie "A Cry In the Dark" with Meryl Streep, when the dingos in Australia attacked the baby.  This was a very tearful movie.  But I must say, that in the Seinfield episode when "Elaine" said "The dingos ate your baby" to the obnoxious woman, with her Aussy accent...it was hilarious!
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originally said in the movie "Cool Hand Luke" (starring Paul Newman) by the prison Captain (played by Strother Martin):\n\nWhat we've got here is failure to communicate.\n\nSome men, you just can't reach.\n\nSo you get what we had here last week -- which is the way he wants it. \n\nWell, he gets it. \n\nAnd I don't like it anymore than you men.\n\n(This line was later used in Full Metal Jacket, and in the Guns N' Roses song Civil War)
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Actually, the reference originally came from a song that was popular in 1956.  It was by the Jayhawks and called Stranded In The Jungle.  It managed to climb the Billboard charts to #18.\n\nThe story is about a guy who gets stranded in a jungle and all he wants to do is get back to his girl in the states.  He gets knocked out, wakes up in a big pot and smells something cooking then realizes he's about to be the main course for a tribe of cannibals.  The next line is "Great googly moogly let me out of here! " \n\nOf course the expression has been used in numerous other songs since but now you know the complete story goes back half a century.
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Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll [Alice in Wonderland].\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky\n\nNotice that some of the words are understandable if you realize that they refer to the sound made by the thing they indicate, such as "whiffling" which should be the word for what an animal does when smelling around as it goes, sort of a clash of whiff and sniff....etc. etc.
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From 'Fuzzy Wuzzy', one of Rudyard Kipling's Barrack Room Ballad poems, written in 1918. \n\nFuzzy then came to be used in The US as slang for a police officer, then shortened to Fuzz.\n\n\nFuzzy-Wuzzy \n\nWe've fought with many men acrost the seas,\nAn' some of 'em was brave an' some was not:\nThe Paythan an' the Zulu an' Burmese;\nBut the Fuzzy was the finest o' the lot.\nWe never got a ha'porth's change of 'im:\n'E squatted in the scrub an' 'ocked our 'orses,\n'E cut our sentries up at Suakim,\nAn' 'e played the cat an' banjo with our forces.\nSo 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan;\nYou're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man;\nWe gives you your certificate, an' if you want it signed\nWe'll come an' 'ave a romp with you whenever you're inclined...
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This is a phrase created by Ray Bradbury in the novel "Dandelion Wine".  \n\n"It’s a story of a thousand memories of things we can’t forget, that we should store away in the back of our minds, like Grandfather stored away the homemade dandelion wine in the cool dark of the cellar, to be opened and drunk in the cold of the winter, when a memory of the dandelion summer is just what the soul needs."\n\nSo it isn't a meteoroligical term, it's a phrase meant to describe how we remember those summers when we were children.  The summers where every day was sunny and warm, where the bees buzzed in the flowers and nothing could hurt you. The days where it seemed like you could get anything you wanted just by wishing on a dandelion head and blowing the seed head off.
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To "make no bones about it," means to do something in a straightforward or unapologetic manner -- to "just do it." According to Christine Ammer's book "Have A Nice Day -- No Problem," a dandy dictionary of cliches, "make no bones about it" is such an ancient phrase, dating to at least 1548, that its origins cannot be accurately traced. As is usual in such cases, however, there are theories. It may have originally arisen as a metaphor, referring to someone who did not make a fuss if bones turned up in his or her soup or stew. Or (there's never just one theory, you'll notice) it may be based on "bones" being a very old slang term for dice. Someone who "made no bones" would be a player who simply cast the dice when his turn came, omitting all the mystical (and annoying) little rituals (such as blowing on, or talking to, the dice) gamblers often develop to conjure up good luck in a game.
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It was made for the men to play something indoors during the winter at a local YMCA by James Naismith in Springfield, MA in 1891.\n\nGood luck.
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This mainly British colloquial expression is recorded only from the 1960s, but is certainly older. Its origin is uncertain. Some argue it may be from cods, an old term for the testicles that derives from the Anglo-Saxon sense of cod, a bag. It is also suggested that wallop may be connected with the dialect term meaning to chatter or scold (not with the word meaning a heavy blow).\nOne explanation has it that it refers to the late Hiram Codd, who—despite his archetypally American first name—was British, born in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk in 1838. He spent his life working in the soft drinks business. In the 1870s, he designed and patented a method of sealing a glass bottle by means of a ball in its neck, which the pressure of the gas in the fizzy drink forced against a rubber washer. Making the bottle was a technical challenge, since the ball necessarily had to be larger than the diameter of the neck. It was only in 1876, when he teamed up with a Yorkshire glass blower named Ben Rylands, that the answer was found. The Codd bottle was an immediate success; surviving examples are now highly collectable. You opened them by pushing the ball into the neck, and openers in the shape of short, thin cylinders were supplied for the purpose. One unexpected problem was that children smashed the bottles to use the glass balls as marbles.\nThe suggestion is that drinkers who preferred their tipple to have alcohol in it were dismissive of Mr Codd’s soft drinks. As beer was often called wallop, they referred sneeringly to the fizzy drink as Codd’s wallop, and the resulting word later spread its meaning to refer to anything considered to be rubbish.\nThis story reeks of the approach to word history called folk etymology. As one writer has put it, it seems rather too neat an explanation to be true. But nobody’s come up with anything better.
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It's a figurative language because it's not actually 100 degrees below zero, just cold enough that you'll be nippy if you go out.
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LMAO good one! That will happen when snowballs freeze in hell but that is a nice thought!
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The cartoon character was a big snow monster, or something like that.  "I like bunny rabbits George.  I like to hug them, and pet them, and squeeze them."\n\nThis cartoon character was modeled after the movie character though.
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Someone on mindlesscrap.com tried to answer this, but I think they came up with a very inadequate answer:\n\n "The phrase started up in the 1980s by teens in the United States.  It's an offshoot of the use of the word "cool" that had been in existence since the 1940s.  That usage was associated with the cool jazz movement of the 1940s, especially Charlie Parker's 1947 record Cool Blues."\n\nI like my guess better:\n\nIt came from the Grateful Dead culture.  At each G.D concert, there'd be people who would serve up vegetarian fare and love.  Someone started saying that, inspired by the cold bean dish which made a great dip, and didn't require any extra fuel.
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It's from a Three Stooges movie, "Gents Without Cents" made in 1944. Curly says \n"Niagra Falls" and Moe (who was under some sort of post-hypnotic suggestion? I don't \nremember) turns on him and launches into the speech. (I dunno. Seemed funny when I was \na kid.) See www.imdb.com for good sources of movie quotes, trivia, etc.\n\n: : This was also from an Abbott and Costello movie entitled "Lost in A Harem".\n: : Many of Bud and Lou's best-known routines were vaudeville and/or burlesque \nstandards. The "Niagara Falls" bit ("Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch...I \ntook my revenge.") was performed by many teams before becoming identified with Abbott \n& Costello.