brass monkey

Brass Monkey is the name of various people and things.

As a group they had the collective balls of a brass monkey.

He knows we got the stuff that will make a brass monkey deliver a lecture.

And with a roaring fire on a night that's hot enough to melt a brass monkey!

She could a cold sweat on a brass monkey, raise some other of his anatomy, too.

It was brass monkey cold out here, pre-dawn, and didn't look to warm up all that much.

"June can talk the ears off a brass monkey."

Why doesn't it have a mark on it for absolute brass monkeys?