be bricking it idiomUKvery informal to be extremely nervous or worried: I'm absolutely bricking it about this interview tomorrow. I was bricking it during the filming because it wasn't at all scripted. It's his first time on a horse and he confesses he's "bricking it." Compare
shit a brickoffensive mainly USoffensive SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Anxious and worried (all) hot and botheredidiom aflutter agitated angsty anxious frightened fuss get in a sweatidiom goosey grim preoccupied prey prey on sb's mindidiom prey on something queasily worried worriedly worrier worrywart wound up |