like a ton of bricks
verystronglyorforcefully:
非常强大；非常有力If Dadfindsout what you've been doing, he'llcome down on(=punish)you like atonofbricks!如果爸爸知道了你在做的事，他会狠狠教训你的！
Linguistics: intensifying expressions
- all the wayidiom
- annoy, frighten, scare, etc. the hell out ofsomeoneidiom
- anything
- as... as anythingidiom
- at leastidiom
- bare
- blank
- dear
- end of storyidiom
- load
- long
- more thanidiom
- on steroidsidiom
- pestilential
- price
- pure
- Sam Hill
- the shit out ofsomeone/somethingidiom
- to say the leastidiom
- ton
Examplesoflike a ton of bricks
like a ton of bricks
The district auditors would be down on themlikeatonofbricksif they did not.
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He will have the whole body of trade unionists on himlikeatonofbricks.
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We drop on victimisationlikeatonofbricksif we find it.
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We sometimes descendlikeatonofbricks.
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I shall come down upon it with wordslikeatonofbricks.
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Putting the land authority under threat will falllikeatonofbrickson the construction industry.
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It brings the factory inspector downlikeatonofbrickson the employer, because that is what he is there for.
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However, we should come downlikeatonofbrickson those who offend persistently.
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Where those rotten apples cause miscarriages of justice through tampering with evidence, the courts should fall on themlikeatonofbricks, and long prison sentences should be imposed.
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If the chap is helpful he will be prepared to do that and may find the whole panoply of law descending on himlikeatonofbricks.
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The motorist who does not light up his car does not get very far before the police are down on himlikeatonofbricks—and quite rightly so, too.
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It hit uslikeatonofbricks.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.That's the way the good songs comethey just hit youlikeatonofbricks.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.But it would hit my ex-girlfriendlikeatonofbricks.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He said our music came outlikeatonofbricks, but we never intended that.
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- non-cyclical
- non-dairy
- non-dairy
- non-dance
- non-dance
- non-dancer
- non-dancer
- non-Darwinian
- non-darwinian
- non-deceptive
- non-deceptive
- non-decision
- non-decision
- nondecreasing
- non-deductive
- non-deductive
- non-defence
- non-defence
- non-defense
- non-defense
- non-deferrable
- non-deferrable
- non-defining
- non-defining
- non-degradable