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brick

Definition

  • noun: a small, hard block of baked clay that is used to build structures (such as houses) and sometimes to make streets, paths, etc.
  • noun: a handy-sized unit of building or paving material typically being rectangular and about 2
  • verb: to close, face, or pave with 'bricks'
  • often used before another noun

Examples

  • Our boss 'came down on us like a ton of bricks' [=got very angry at us] when he found out we had missed the meeting.

  • The loss of his job 'hit him like a ton of bricks'. [=hit him very hard; made him very upset, unhappy, etc.]

  • Market uncertainties have been driving the rush to invest in 'bricks and mortar'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Let us cook. Hold me. You in the press and the police use words like "Mafia", "Cosa Nostra". This is a fantasy. We Italian-Americans laid the bricks that built this city. We have Meucci, who invented the telephone. We have Don Ameche, who played the guy who invented it. The salsiccia is wonderful! (..)
    1990 The Godfather Part III