If acid reflux symptoms happen more than twice a week, you have acid reflux disease, also known as gastroesophageal reflux disease . What Causes Acid Reflux Disease? One common cause of acid reflux disease is a stomach abnormality called a hiatal hernia. This occurs when the upper part of the stomach and LES move above the diaphragm, a muscle that separates your stomach from your chest.
Brass Monkey is a name given to a number of different cocktail recipes. As with many lesser-known cocktails that are named after colloquial expressions, there are widely differing recipes that share the same name.
The brass refers to officers, and it's shorthand for the older phrase the brass hats.. From the OED: brass hat n. [so called from the gilt insignia on an officer's cap] colloq. (orig.Mil. slang) a high-ranking officer in the armed forces, originally in the British army; cf. tin hat n. 1b.n books by many different authors I encountered phrases like this: He curses the brass for not caring whether he lives or dies. From context, it seemed to me that it meant high-rank officers, about the rank of general. But sometimes it seems to mean lower (than general) rank commissioned officers, too.