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词汇 brick
释义
brick
Theme: FAILURE
1.
n. any failure.
Charlie is responsible for another brick in the accounting department.This whole thing is a mess. Whose brick is this anyway?
2.
in. to fail.
The whole project bricked because we sat on the contract too long.The company almost bricked because of delays in signing contracts.
Theme: SPORTS - BASKETBALL
n. a missed shot in basketball.
Chalk up another brick for Michael.It looked close, but it was a brick.
brick
1. nickname
the British Columbia Resources Investment Corporation. A near-abbreviation CANADA, 1979
2. noun
1
a good man. A term of approval UK, 1840.
2
someone with exceptionally good credit US, 2001.
3
a person lacking social skills US, 1968.
4
a profit made fraudulently UK, 1979.
5
a sentence of ten years in jail AUSTRALIA, 1944.
6
a street tough person AUSTRALIA, 1840.
7
a die that has been shaved on one face US, 1950.
8
in poker, a drawn card that fails to improve the hand US, 1996.
9
ten cartons of stolen cigarettes US, 1982.
10
a carton of cigarettes US, 1906.
11
a kilogram of, usually compressed, marijuana, or, less commonly, another drug US, 1967.
12
marijuana. From the sense as a measurement of the drug UK, 1996.
13
crack cocaine US, 2003.
14
an Australian ten pound note; the sum of ten pounds. From the colour of the note. After the introduction of decimal currency in 1966 the meaning changed to either 'twenty dollars' (an equivalent value) or, most commonly, 'ten dollars' (numerically the same). Neither of the new notes were brick coloured and the term has all but died out AUSTRALIA, 1914.
15
a pound sterling (£1) UK: SCOTLAND, 1988.
16
a four-man infantry patrol. Used by the British Army in Northern Ireland UK, 1995.
17
an abandoned, partially consumed can or bottle of beer US, 2002
3. verb
1
to have sex leaning against a brick wall for balance and purchase UK, 2001.
2
to cheat or defraud someone UK, 1979.
3
to fail to deliver as promised US, 1993.
4
to hurl bricks, rocks or other hard objects. A word commonly used in the 1960s in American cities during events called 'riots' by the dominant power and 'uprisings' by leftists US, 1972.
5
to miss a shot; to fail US, 2001.► brick your pantsto soil your underwear as a result of fear; to be very afraid UK, 2005
idiombrick► built like a brick shithouse► drop sb/sth like a hot brick drop sb/sth like a hot potato► hit a brick wall► like talking to a (brick) wallsb's a brick BrEBrEdepend on/rely onold-fashioned used in order to say that you can depend on someone when you have a problem or need help:Sarah was a real brick to go to the funeral - I couldn't face it alone.drop a brick BrEBrEold-fashioned to say something that is embarrassing in a social situation:He said, "I'll see you at Liza's party," and didn't even realize that he'd dropped a brick.
Note drop a clanger is a more modern idiom that means the same thing.
shit a brickslang a rude way of saying that someone is extremely frightened or worried about something:I almost shit a brick the first time I had to speak in front of everyone.
phrasebrick[bricked, bricked, bricking]
brick up/in
brick up/in sth • brick sth up/in to put a wall of bricks in the space where a window, door etc is, so that it cannot be used any more: The house had been empty for years and all the windows had been bricked up. Its previous owners had bricked in the old fireplace and put a gas heater there instead.

brick

1. n. a failed shot (in basketball) that bounces off the rim or backboard. Chalk up another brick for Michael.
2. n. any failure. This whole thing is a mess. Whose brick is this anyway?
3. in. to fail. (From sense 1) The whole project bricked because we sat on the contract too long.
4. tv. to strike or punch someone. (Streets.) That dude just bricked a cop!
5. n. a block of marijuana; a kilo of cocaine. (Drugs.) Man, I can’t afford a brick! Gimme a bag. The police said he was carrying a “brick” of cannabis when arrested.
6. n. a large, brick-shaped, handheld mobile telephone that is a precursor to the modern cellphone. I still have my old “brick,” but I’d be embarrassed to use it, even if it did still work.
See:
  • (as) thick as a brick
  • a brick short of a load
  • a few bricks short of a (full) load
  • a few bricks shy/short of a load
  • a few, two, etc. bricks short of a load
  • bang (one's) head against a brick wall
  • bang your head against a brick wall
  • be (as) thick as a brick
  • be banging (one's) head against a brick wall
  • be banging your head against a brick wall
  • be banging, etc. your head against a brick wall
  • be bricking it
  • be down on (one) like a ton of bricks
  • be hitting (one's) head against a (brick) wall
  • be like a cat on hot bricks
  • be like talking to a brick wall
  • be one brick short of a (full) load
  • be several bricks short of a (full) load
  • be/come down on somebody like a ton of bricks
  • be/come up against a brick wall
  • beat head against the wall
  • beat one's head against the wall
  • brick
  • brick -and-mortar
  • brick by brick
  • brick house
  • brick in
  • brick in (one's) hat
  • brick up
  • brick wall
  • brick-and-mortar
  • bricks and mortar
  • bricks shy of a load
  • bricks-and-mortar
  • built like a brick outhouse
  • come down like a ton of bricks
  • come down on (one) like a ton of bricks
  • come down on someone like a ton of bricks
  • come up against a brick wall
  • drop (someone or something) like a hot brick
  • drop a bomb
  • drop a brick
  • drop a brick/clanger
  • drop something like a hot potato
  • elevator doesn't go to the top floor, the
  • few bricks short of a load
  • goldbrick
  • have a brick in (one's) hat
  • hit (one) like a ton of bricks
  • hit a brick wall
  • hit the bricks
  • knock (one's) head against a (brick) wall
  • knock head against a brick wall
  • like a cat on hot bricks
  • like a ton of bricks
  • like a ton of bricks, (come down)
  • make bricks without straw
  • one brick short of a (full) load
  • one brick shy of a (full) load
  • one brick shy of a load
  • regular brick
  • run (one's) head against a brick wall
  • run head against a brick wall
  • run into a brick wall
  • run into a stone wall
  • run one's head against (into) a brick/stone wall, to
  • several bricks short of a (full) load
  • talk to a brick wall
  • three bricks shy of a load
  • two bricks shy of a (full) load
  • up against a brick wall
  • wash a brick
  • yellow brick road
  • You cannot make bricks without straw
  • you can't make bricks without straw
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