English: brass-monkey weatherFrench translation: très froid 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | English term or phrase: | brass-monkey weather | | French translation: | très froid | | Entered by: | DocteurPC |
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English to French translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / thriller | | English term or phrase: brass-monkey weather | | I know it's not brass-monkey weather right now, but it's still bloody cold to be sleeping out in the open. |
| | Clarification request(s) and responseRichard Nice: 9:19am Dec 14, 2004: Very litle support for the 'accepted' answer"! -
Dr Sue Levy: 9:25am Dec 14, 2004: Unistrans, I think the answer was accepted before anyone had a chance to object! -
cmwilliams: 9:45am Dec 14, 2004: I think the answer had just been accepted when I posted my answer. I don't care about the points but it would be good if the glossary entry could be amended. -
DocteurPC (asker): 2:42pm Dec 14, 2004: sorry, sorry - Obviously, I accepted the wrong answer and did it too fast to give anybody else a chance to comment or find the right answer. I like to have fast feedback when I provide answers (even though 24 hours is the recommended time frame suggested) so I do the same. Furthermore, NancyLynn often offers good answers so I let this bias my opinion) I promise, next time, not to ask/grade so fast and will correct the glossary entry.
NancyLynn: 4:13pm Dec 14, 2004: Thanks for your vote of confidence, DocteurPC, but I erred in this case. I`ve ungraded my answer and erased it, so that you can now select and grade the correct one. Nancy -
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| | très froid | Explanation:
This means very cold weather. The full expression is 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.'
... BRASS MONKEY WEATHER. [Q ... standards). The other day, I used the expression
brass monkey weather and was asked to explain. Any ideas?”. ...
www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bra1.htm
www.the-old-sea-dog.net/uk4.html
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Home. brass monkey weather UK INFORMAL. extremely cold weather. ...
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cmwilliams
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| Note from asker to answererYou deserve those points - sorry about that but now all is well (sounds like a Christmas feel good movie)
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| très froid
Explanation:
This means very cold weather. The full expression is 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.'
... BRASS MONKEY WEATHER. [Q ... standards). The other day, I used the expression
brass monkey weather and was asked to explain. Any ideas?”. ...
www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bra1.htm
www.the-old-sea-dog.net/uk4.html
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Note added at 40 mins (2004-12-14 00:19:03 GMT) Post-grading
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freesearch, Web Search Picture Search Dictionary. << Back to freesearch Dictionary
Home. brass monkey weather UK INFORMAL. extremely cold weather. ...
www.freesearch.co.uk/dictionary/brass+monkey+weather
| cmwilliams
United Kingdom
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 4
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| Note from asker to answerer| You deserve those points - sorry about that but now all is well (sounds like a Christmas feel good movie) |
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