brick wall
noun[Cusually sing]
us/ˈbrɪk ˈwɔl/something thatpreventsyou from doing something:
Even thebestwritershita brick wall sometimes and can't make astorywork.
| 单词 | brick wall |
| 释义 | brick wall noun[Cusually sing] us/ˈbrɪk ˈwɔl/something thatpreventsyou from doing something: Even thebestwritershita brick wall sometimes and can't make astorywork. brick wall| Business Englishbrick wall noun[C,usually singular] ukusapointorlevelthat it is verydifficultto go past: Thehousingmarketdeclinedas theboominpriceshitabrickwall. aproblemorsituationthat is verydifficulttosolve: Theirhopestoexpandthecompanyraninto abrickwallwhen they couldn't get aloan. bang/hit your head against a brick wall totryrepeatedlyto do something with nosuccess: Itfeltlike I washittingmyheadagainst abrickwallbecause I had nosupportfrom myboss. Examplesofbrick wallbrick wall Stand-up comedy is a performer and a microphone telling jokes in front of the proverbialbrickwall. FromChicago Tribune It's the equivalent of running head-first into abrickwall2,400 times. FromPlain Dealer It will run into a legalbrickwall. FromNPR And in the cases where we looked at moving abrickwallto make a room bigger, you would never know the difference. FromChicago Tribune An elevator on the 48th floor opened to abrickwall. FromChicago Tribune Don't be abrickwallwith your emotions. FromHuffington Post He was an enigmatic man with abrickwallaround him so high you could never look in. FromHuffington Post I hit right on the corner of the shortbrickwalland sliced open my forehead, right between my eyes. FromHuffington Post Those who saw trees recuperated almost a full day faster and required fewer doses of pain medication than those facing abrickwall. FromNBCNews.com You can see right into the back of the building, where a giant hole is ripped into thebrickwallwhere the ceiling caved in. FromCBS Local But that isn't to say it's like fighting against abrickwall. FromVentureBeat He would spend hours that bled into full days throwing a baseball against abrickwall. FromESPN The ballpark itself isn't in the greatest shape; part of the outfieldbrickwallhad to be replaced over the winter. FromNPR These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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