| 词汇 | brick-wall |
| 释义 | brick wall noun[ Cusually sing ] us/ˈbrɪk ˈwɔl/ something that prevents you from doing something: Even the best writers hit a brick wall sometimes and can't make a story work. brick wall | Business Englishbrick wall noun[ C,usually singular ] ukus a point or level that it is very difficult to go past: The housing market declined as the boom in prices hit a brick wall. a problem or situation that is very difficult to solve: Their hopes to expand the company ran into a brick wall when they couldn't get a loan. bang/hit your head against a brick wall to try repeatedly to do something with no success: It felt like I was hitting my head against a brick wall because I had no support from my boss. Examples of brick wallbrick wall Stand-up comedy is a performer and a microphone telling jokes in front of the proverbial brickwall. From Chicago Tribune It's the equivalent of running head-first into a brickwall 2,400 times. From Plain Dealer It will run into a legal brickwall. From NPR And in the cases where we looked at moving a brickwall to make a room bigger, you would never know the difference. From Chicago Tribune An elevator on the 48th floor opened to a brickwall. From Chicago Tribune Don't be a brickwall with your emotions. From Huffington Post He was an enigmatic man with a brickwall around him so high you could never look in. From Huffington Post I hit right on the corner of the short brickwall and sliced open my forehead, right between my eyes. From Huffington Post Those who saw trees recuperated almost a full day faster and required fewer doses of pain medication than those facing a brickwall. From NBCNews.com You can see right into the back of the building, where a giant hole is ripped into the brickwall where the ceiling caved in. From CBS Local But that isn't to say it's like fighting against a brickwall. From VentureBeat He would spend hours that bled into full days throwing a baseball against a brickwall. From ESPN The ballpark itself isn't in the greatest shape; part of the outfield brickwall had to be replaced over the winter. From NPR 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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