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.]
I still have a 'ton' to do before the guests arrive.
(..) Prince Oblonsky, everything is over between our families. Alexei, divorce is one thing. Dinner is quite another. You Petersburgers think yourselves so de bon ton compared with dull, old-fashioned Moscow. But we know how to do things. Only the other day, I hear Vasya Pryachnikov (..)2012 Anna Karenina