drop a brick
11brick — brick1 W3S2 [brık] n [Date: 1400 1500; : French; Origin: brique, from Middle Dutch bricke] 1.) [U and C] a hard block of baked clay used for building walls, houses etc ▪ a brick wall ▪ a house made of brick ▪ Protesters attacked the police with… …
12drop — verb (drops, dropping, dropped) 1》 fall or cause to fall vertically. ↘deliver by parachute. ↘sink to or towards the ground. ↘informal collapse from exhaustion. 2》 make or become lower, weaker, or less. ↘lose (a point, a match, etc …
13brick — bricklike, brickish, adj. /brik/, n. 1. a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln, and used for building, paving, etc.: traditionally, in the U.S., a rectangle 21/4 × 33/4 × 8 in. (5.7 × 9.5 × 20.3 cm), red, brown, or… …
14brick — n. (colloq.) (BE) blunder to drop a brick * * * [brɪk] (colloq.) (BE) [ blunder ] to drop a brick …
15brick — [[t]brɪk[/t]] n. 1) bui a block of clay hardened by drying in the sun or burning in a kiln and used for building, paving, etc 2) bui such blocks collectively 3) bui the material of which such blocks are made 4) any block or bar having a similar… …
16brick — I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English bryke, from Middle Dutch bricke Date: 15th century 1. plural bricks or brick a handy sized unit of building or paving material typically being rectangular and about 2 1/4 × 3 3/4 × 8… …
17drop a bollock — vb British to commit a blunder; a vulgar alterna tive to the colloquial drop a brick or drop a clanger …
18brick — 1. Thoroughly dependable and kind person. 2. See drop a brick and ton of bricks …
19drop a bomb(shell) — Go to drop a brick …
20drop someone like a hot brick — drop (someone/something) like a hot brick/potato informal to suddenly get rid of someone or something that you have been involved with because you do not want them any more or you are worried they may cause problems. The government dropped the… …
