BRICK

Meaning of BRICK in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a brick/stone/wooden building

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The farmhouse is a long stone building about a century old.

brick red

came down on...like a ton of bricks (= very severely )

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I made the mistake of answering back, and she came down on me like a ton of bricks .

stone/brick/concrete wall

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The estate is surrounded by high stone walls.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

high

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It had tiny windows like a prison, and a high brick wall all round it.

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From behind high brick walls, you can hear bubbling fountains.

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The whole playground was surrounded by a four foot high brick wall with buttresses at about every ten feet.

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There was a high brick wall around it.

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The interior is in simple, brick design with high vaults and brick piers and marble columns.

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This bridge was a high brick arch viaduct, well clear of the tramway.

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The garden was cut off from its neighbour by a high red brick wall.

hot

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She was used to draughty spaces, soaring walls, a nightly ritual of wraps and hot bricks in winter.

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If Kirov chose, he could drop Vologsky, and Operation Cuckoo, like a hot brick .

large

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The Rotonda is a large , simple brick structure, built in 1695 as a cemetery for the dead of Ospedale Maggiore.

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This was a large mock-classical brick building, with columns and pediments.

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It has large brick works, engineering works and freezing factories.

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One mile to the south of the village lies Sand Hall, a large brick building erected in 1774.

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Weather conditions being favourable, the committee ordered the making of a large quantity of bricks .

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The Fu family's house is large , with brick walls, electricity and a black-and-white television.

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The children began to sort large rectangular bricks into one pile.

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A large , brick building, it has a tall nave, choir and transepts and apsidal choir termination.

old

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If fire brick is not available to the forge builder, old red brick will do.

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The old brick walls; small windows; half dark.

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Next door was an old brick garage, which I converted into a cottage for my Nan.

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I had lost her face and I felt my own features fall apart like an old brick hotel in a Frisco earthquake.

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The small untidy garden at the back of Merrill's flat faced south, trapping the warmth between its old brick walls.

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Despite the problems, old brick rowhouses are not inherently dangerous.

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The old bricks were still scattered over the foreshore.

red

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The two-storey, nineteenth-century Gothic, red brick building is currently buried in undergrowth.

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As they leaned against a red brick wall, a portly prison system official swabbed at the sweat trickling into his collar.

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The rectory was a dour red brick house with ivy-clad walls where birds would soon be nesting.

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I clipped an advertisement from Life showing a little girl looking out of a single apartment window set in red brick .

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The complex includes offices, stables and other ancillary buildings of red brick .

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He and Maurine built a one-bedroom red brick bungalow in the yard where Hayes had kept mules as a boy.

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These extensions were all done in red brick to fit in with the original structure.

solid

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It was brick , solid brick.

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In their place a solid row of brick facades pressed the old building tightly on each side.

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The tower was about 10 metres high and had solid masonry of brick and stone about 2 metres thick.

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On top of this was a solid brick monument with an upright stone.

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Before 1930 most houses were built with solid brick walls.

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Buy the correct length to go through handrail and plaster and into solid brick , block or stone behind.

yellow

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Black, yellow and white bricks were introduced to give a pattern, as were also small quantities of other materials.

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Dorothy helped him over the fence, and they started along the path of yellow brick for the Emerald City.

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The factory is a three-storey building of yellow brick .

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She bade her friends good-bye, and again started along the road of yellow brick .

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But the mythology of footwear began long before Dorothy stepped on to the yellow brick road.

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The yellow brick clinic stands vacant.

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There were several roads near by, but it did not take her long to find the one paved with yellow brick .

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The yellow brick of elevator buildings like his own.

■ NOUN

building

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This was a large mock-classical brick building , with columns and pediments.

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Today, the National Park Service offers boat tours along the canals, narrow quiet canyons between imperious five-story brick buildings .

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One mile to the south of the village lies Sand Hall, a large brick building erected in 1774.

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They spread out in front of the red brick buildings , whose ramparts produce a castle-like appearance.

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The two-storey, nineteenth-century Gothic, red brick building is currently buried in undergrowth.

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Most of the housing consists of squat, square and entirely functional brick buildings dating from the mid-1930s.

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The vicarage house is a handsome brick building in the Gothic style.

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Most brick buildings have walls that are flat over large areas.

dust

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The House also distinguished McGhee, as in that case the plaintiff's injury was caused by the brick dust .

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It meant brick dust and disorder.

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The soil is the colour of brick dust , with only deep dry gullies to show that water ever flowed here.

house

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Instead I was directed to a three-roomed brick house with corrugated iron roofing.

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Row after row of modest little brick houses are interspersed with delis and corner restaurants.

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On the western side of Louth is Thorpe Hall; a beautifully mellow brick house with lichen-clad roof.

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It was a timeless scene: a brick house , a mown meadow, a man and his boy playing ball.

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The rectory was a dour red brick house with ivy-clad walls where birds would soon be nesting.

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The Glen-Gery New York offices are in a nineteenth-century brick house , overlooking a tree-shaded courtyard.

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This was a frankly proletarian town, laid out in regular rows of plain brick houses .

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New brick houses were being built to replace prettier but more fragile jhumpas.

kiln

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In 1910 Hilton Anderson's foreman bricklayer was killed when he fell while demolishing a brick kiln .

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The 300 or so brick kilns of Juarez are just part of the problem.

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His body was wheeled off in a peat barrow and cremated in the local brick kiln .

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Each whale ship carries its own brick kiln , above which are two big shining pots.

mud

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However, even disintegrated mud brick can help to assess rebuilding phases in Penivian villages or Near Eastern tells.

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Even today many members of these tribes live in multi-occupation dwellings made from sun-dried mud bricks known as adobe.

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Archaeologists found it in a boat-shaped tomb 29m long, made out of mud bricks and buried deep in the sand.

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The ground was covered with crumbling mud bricks , heaps of cracked white stone.

oven

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The baker, with his back to her, was shovelling more loaves from the brick oven .

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On a small scale it re-creates the effects of a brick oven on a loaf of bread.

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Building a brick oven is one way to tap into that worldview.

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I will admit, however, that brick ovens do make exceptional breads with great crust.

structure

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The Rotonda is a large, simple brick structure , built in 1695 as a cemetery for the dead of Ospedale Maggiore.

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The school holds over 2, 500 young people in a massive brick structure that can only be described as foreboding.

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A permanent brick structure will require more space.

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Externally, the church is a simple and dignified brick structure , its lack of decoration suggesting a very early constructional date.

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Male speaker It's basically a massive brick structure carrying the water of the Bear brook through Aylesbury.

wall

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The brick walls and paving of the front garden are clean and tidy, but rather harsh.

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After the first day I felt like I had run into a brick wall .

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Apparently, Marr had been driving with his wife when he spun out of control and smashed into a brick wall .

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From behind high brick walls , you can hear bubbling fountains.

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The face relaxed and slid from view, the brick wall clouded and the screen blacked.

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A brick wall would be put upa labor.

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In the street Dexter watched three kids start to kick a football against a brick wall .

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Exposed the original brick walls , hung lamps with straw bonnets for shades, put in a small mahogany bar.

■ VERB

build

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Houses built of brick and flint, of indeterminate age but generally not of this century started to appear.

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The church was built of brick and chicken wire.

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The exterior is built in simple brick and stone courses and, like the interior has been restored a number of times.

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One built a house of straw, one built a house of sticks, one built a house of bricks .

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Lego should not get away with simply building a plastic brick replica of Yosemite Valley and other landmarks.

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Scott's building was formerly the Midland Grand Hotel, and is built of brick with stone dressings.

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He and Maurine built a one-bedroom red brick bungalow in the yard where Hayes had kept mules as a boy.

construct

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But it has endured because it was constructed of brick and volcanic rock between 1783 and 1792.

drop

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They drop their bricks and sticks, and run as if the hounds of hell are at their heels.

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Now, suppose that you were to file through the cement and drop the bricks side by side as before.

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If we heard the Colonel's car draw up, of course I had to drop my bricks and run.

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No wonder, perhaps, that Seaman dropped a brick .

hit

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Now she has hit a brick wall and has written to me to highlight the problem.

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When he was hit with the brick , he never told his parents.

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Must rising wages and expanding production hit a brick wall, leading to layoffs and falling output?

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Each time the ball hits the wall a brick disappears and you're closer to your aim of breaking down the wall.

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No soap box, no stump speech, no calling out, in a beer-barrel voice, to hit the bricks .

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And it stops you having to hit them with a brick .

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The car hit a brick wall!

lay

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Trying to raise efficiency and morale without first setting this structure to rights is like trying to lay bricks without mortar.

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They come in a range of colours and textures, and can be laid just like bricks .

make

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He had built a big new house in the valley, beside the best clay for making good hard bricks .

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She took off her muff and laid it down on the rough table made of planks and bricks .

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After a while they make adobe bricks and build their houses by stages, one room followed by another.

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The dome is made of brick with thick mortar joints.

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This will make bricks and tiles even more expensive, and in turn reduce demand.

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He started with making building bricks from it.

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You see we still insist on making our handmade bricks in the same painstaking way we've always made them.

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Archaeologists found it in a boat-shaped tomb 29m long, made out of mud bricks and buried deep in the sand.

run

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When scientists attempt to unravel the mysteries of the past they always run up against a brick wall.

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So after they ran into all these brick walls, they had no place else to go.

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After the first day I felt like I had run into a brick wall.

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I kept running into brick walls and making mistakes.

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He ran into a brick wall.

set

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It hung on the outside of the small wrought-iron gate set in the brick wall at the main entrance.

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She plopped down too much mortar, smoothed it out and set a brick on it.

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Gas Aga which serves central heating and domestic hot water and set in most attractive brick recess with exposed beam over.

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Turn it back again and set on three bricks .

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Having set our investment in bricks and mortar, we're now setting our sights on the future.

throw

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More than 20 shops were looted, some by hooligans who threw stones and bricks through windows.

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Some one threw a brick through his dining room window.

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I threw a brick through the window, ran away and then came back and did it again.

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People throw bricks , fight cops, disrupt Sunday services in churches, and spill blood all over the floor.

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She threw the brick over to the bonfire site and attacked with the fork again.

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When Angelina Weld took her turn, the crowd outside started throwing bricks through windows.

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However, neither Bush nor the protesters who throw bricks at him seem to get it.

use

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Building towers of different sized bricks but using bricks in one-to-one correspondence, probably with the teacher's guidance.

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Construction method would be single walled using concrete blocks and bricks .

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Your design can be created, using bricks and stones to make interesting shapes or by using herbs alone.

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About 200 thugs used bricks , crowbars and stones.

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They used sun-dried bricks widely, their bricks being of Lydian proportion, thin and measuring about 12 × 18 inches.

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The viaduct was built by Thomas Brassey to a design by Lewis Cubbitt, using locally made bricks , in 1848-50.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be (like) banging/bashing etc your head against a brick wall

be like talking to a brick wall

be/come up against a (brick) wall

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She swam in what she hoped was the direction of the stairs, only to come up against a wall .

come down on sb like a ton of bricks

drop a clanger/brick

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No wonder, perhaps, that Seaman dropped a brick.

hit a (brick) wall

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A man and his woman pillion passenger died instantly when they lost control of the machine and hit a wall.

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But by the mid-1970s, his career apparently hit a wall.

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But then Sumlin came on and hit a wall.

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He hit a wall hard enough to briefly ignite a magnesium wheel, but refused to slow down.

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He died because his car hit a wall.

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In these sessions, men generally will talk about the conflicts between job and family, but then hit a wall.

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Must rising wages and expanding production hit a brick wall, leading to layoffs and falling output?

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Now she has hit a brick wall and has written to me to highlight the problem.

hit sb like a ton of bricks

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The news of her accident hit me like a ton of bricks.

lay bricks/carpet/concrete/cables etc

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Compact the base, then lay concrete, using a 1 cement to 5 parts ballast mix.

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During the week I found work in town painting houses, laying carpets and delivering telephone books.

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Trying to raise efficiency and morale without first setting this structure to rights is like trying to lay bricks without mortar.

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Why didn't he lay concrete you ask?

like a cat on hot bricks

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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Janet's a real brick .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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A sudden gust of rain dashed against the red bricks that were already stained in patches by water.

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Helen piled bricks up in front of the stove, climbed up on them and began dropping the clothes in.

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Inside, the church has cream-washed walls, a brick floor and green painted pews.

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Ornate patterns are carved into the bricks framing the entrance.

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Stack bales like giant bricks to make the walls.

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Striding away from the house, Carolyn stubbed her toe badly on a brick end and had to sit down to nurse it.

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That was a real building, with real bricks.

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