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:
“Uncle Ben’s brass bullet-mould
And powder horn, and Major Bogan’s face
Above the fire, in the half-light, plainly said
There’s naught to kill but the animated dead;”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Before I get through with you, you will have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife. Now, the first thing to do is arrange for a settlement. You take the children, your husband takes the house, Junior burns down the house, you take the insurance and I take you!”
—S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Arthur Sheekman, Will Johnstone, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Monkey Business, terms for a divorce settlement proposed while trying to woo Lucille Briggs (Thelma Todd)