MAKE BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW


Meaning of MAKE BRICKS WITHOUT STRAW in English

{v. phr.} To make something without the wherewithal; do something the hard way; do a job under hard conditions. * /John could not go to a library, and writing the report was a job of making bricks without straw./ * /It was making bricks without straw to put on plays in that old barn./

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