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'.
(..) This fax arrived an hour ago. What have you got for us? We need to find a place in the city where all five of these things intersect. Chalk, asphalt, brick dust, vegetation. What - chocolate?! I think we're looking for a disused sweet factory. We need to narrow that down. No, too general. Something more specific. Chalk, chalky clay. That's a far thinner band of geology. Brick dust? Building site. Bricks from the s. There's thousands of building sites in London. I've got people out looking. (..)2012 TvShow: Sherlock Title: The Reichenbach Fall Season: 2 Episode 3