to hit the bricks
1hit the bricks — AND hit the pavement 1. v. to start walking; to go into the streets. □ I have a long way to go. I’d better hit the bricks. □ Go on! Hit the pavement! Get going! 2. tv. to go out on strike. □ The workers hit the pavement on Friday and haven’t been …
2hit the bricks — verb a) To travel about, especially on foot. [T]housands of brewers, waiters and waitresses, bartenders, cooks, checkers, cashiers, dishwashers, hotel maids and bellmen, too, would be forced to hit the bricks in search of other work. b) To leave… …
3hit the bricks — go to jail, be sentenced to a jail term, in the tank That was the last time he hit the bricks. He never went to jail again …
4hit the bricks — vb American a more fashionable version of the collo quial hit the road and later hit the street (to get going or appear in public). Originally the phrase specifically referred to released prisoners …
5hit the bricks — 1. American to go on strike From walking out on to the sidewalk in the days before employees drove to work. 2. American to escape or desert Again from the sidewalk. Hit the hump is a synonym for the hill over which the fugitive… …
6hit the bricks — idi a) to walk the streets b) to go on strike …
7hit the pavement — verb a) To travel on foot, as on a sidewalk. But getting people to hit the pavement is more than just a health concern. . . . unicipalities are looking to combat inner city decay by keeping the streets flush with pedestrians. b) To travel or… …
8hit the pavement — Go to hit the bricks …
9hit the bricks — v. begin walking …
10hit the bricks — phrasal slang : to go on strike : walk out …
