Primate Phrases

Phrases

• Brass monkey weather
• Code monkey (slang term for a computer programmer)
• Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey
• Get the monkey off my back
• Get your monkey up
• Go ape shit
• Grease monkey
• I want to talk to the organ grinder not the monkey
• I'll be a monkey's uncle
• Make a monkey out of him
• Mickey's Monkey (Smokey Robinson song)
• Monkey around
• Monkey business
• Monkey see: monkey do
• Primal Fear (film starring Richard Gere)
• Primal Rage (film and video game)
• Primal Scream (a psychological treatment for neurosis)
• Primal fear (Neurosis therapy and British rock band)
• Primal therapist (psychotherapist who uses Primal Scream method of treatment)
• Softly, softly, catchee monkey
• Spank the monkey
• Too Much Monkey Business (Chuck Berry song)
• Touch my monkey! (A catchphrase from Sprockets In Saturday Night Live)
• You can put that where the monkey keeps his nuts
• You couldn't catch a monkey with a shotgun and a sack