- 1[countable, uncountable] a block of baked clay used for building walls, houses, and other buildings; bricks used as a building material a pile of bricks The school is built of brick. a brick wall see redbrick
- 2[countable] a plastic or wooden block, used as a toy for young children to build things with Idioms
to keep trying to do something that will never be successful Trying to reason with them was like banging my head against a (brick) wall.
to be unable to make any progress because there is a difficulty that stops you
buildings, when you are thinking of them in connection with how much they cost to build or how much they are worth They put their money into bricks and mortar. (business) a new Internet company without a lot of bricks-and-mortar businesses (= businesses with buildings that customers go to) brick-and-mortar businesses
very heavily; very severely Disappointment hit her like a ton of bricks. They came down on him like a ton of bricks (= criticized him very severely).
used to say that you cannot work without the necessary material, money, information, etc.
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