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词汇 like-a-ton-of-bricks
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like a ton of bricks


idiom
very strongly or forcefully: 非常强大;非常有力
come down on someone like a ton of bricksIf Dad finds out what you've been doing, he'll come down on (= punish) you like a ton of bricks!如果爸爸知道了你在做的事,他会狠狠教训你的!
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistics: intensifying expressions
annoy, frighten, scare, etc. the hell out of someoneidiom
anything
as... as anythingidiom
at leastidiom
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Examples of like a ton of bricks


like a ton of bricks
The district auditors would be down on them likeatonofbricks if they did not.
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He will have the whole body of trade unionists on him likeatonofbricks.
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We drop on victimisation likeatonofbricks if we find it.
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We sometimes descend likeatonofbricks.
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I shall come down upon it with words likeatonofbricks.
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Putting the land authority under threat will fall likeatonofbricks on the construction industry.
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It brings the factory inspector down likeatonofbricks on the employer, because that is what he is there for.
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However, we should come down likeatonofbricks on 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 them likeatonofbricks, 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 him likeatonofbricks.
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The motorist who does not light up his car does not get very far before the police are down on him likeatonofbricks—and quite rightly so, too.
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It hit us likeatonofbricks.
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That's the way the good songs comethey just hit you likeatonofbricks.
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But it would hit my ex-girlfriend likeatonofbricks.
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He said our music came out likeatonofbricks, but we never intended that.
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