Brass Monkey

Brass Monkey is the name of various people and things. In several cases, the people and things were named after, or as an allusion to, the colloquial expression.

  • Brass Monkey (band), an English folk band
  • Brass Monkey (cocktail), an alcoholic drink
  • Brass monkey (colloquial expression), as used by many English speakers to indicate extremes, especially of cold
  • Brass Monkey (film), a 1948 film
  • "Brass Monkey" (song), a song on the Beastie Boys' 1986 debut album Licensed to Ill
  • Brass Monkeys, an Australian sitcom
  • Brass Monkey, a character in Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children
  • K2 Brass Monkey, a K2 bike that started production in 2000 and stopped in 2002

Famous quotes containing the words brass and/or monkey:

    “No stout
    Lesson showed how to chat with death. We brought
    No brass fortissimo, among our talents,
    To holler down the lions in this air.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “I haven’t eaten in three days. I didn’t eat yesterday, I didn’t eat today and I’m not going to eat tomorrow. That makes it three days!”
    —S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Arthur Sheekman, Will Johnstone, and Norman Z. McLeod. Chico Marx, Monkey Business, a complaint shipboard stowaway Chico makes to fellow stowaway Groucho Marx (1931)