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In addition to the idioms beginning with brick, also see drop a brick; hit the bricks; like a cat on a hot brick; like a ton of bricks; make bricks without straw; run into a stone (brick) wall.

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brick up

to close or wall in with brick

hit the bricks

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Slang to go out on strike

make bricks without straw

Etymology: from use of straw as binding agent in sun-baked bricks: cf. Ex. 5:7

to do something without the necessary material

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drop a brick

Informal

To make a clumsy social error.

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