1,000 in two lots of cash? I thought his assets were frozen! (5,6)
I believe the answer is:
brass monkey
'i thought his assets were frozen' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.
'1000 in two lots of cash?' is the wordplay.
'b000' becomes 'k' (synonyms).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'two lots of' becomes 'brass' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'cash?' becomes 'money' (cash is physical money).
'brass'+'money'='brassmoney'
'k' inserted inside 'brassmoney' is 'BRASS MONKEY'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for brass monkey that I've seen is " common cold?".)