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:

    “Thee for my recitative,
    Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day
    declining,
    Thee in thy panoply, thy measur’d dual throbbing and thy beat
    convulsive,
    Thy black cylindric body, golden brass and silvery steel,”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life’s true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)