brick wall

brick wall

An immovable, insurmountable, or unyielding obstacle or person. We tried to get in with our fake IDs, but the bouncer at the door is a brick wall.
See also: brick, wall
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • run into a brick wall
  • hit a brick wall
  • run into a stone wall
  • hit a stone wall
  • run one's head against (into) a brick/stone wall, to
  • bum rush
  • steel (someone or oneself) against (someone or something)
  • steel against
  • body shake
  • hardliner
References in periodicals archive
Ashes winners the night before and I was literally ready to run through a brick wall at that stage and get right in amongst it.
TON-UP HERO BURNS: I'D RUN THROUGH A BRICK WALL FOR ENGLAND; A STAR IS BORN AT THE ASHES
They posted on Twitter last night saying: "A34 between Cannock and Stafford this evening - single vehicle collision with a brick wall.
Lucky driver saved from burning car; E&S BRIEFING
As the chase reached Newport Road, Qelia accelerated in a Ford Focus and thrust the Skoda Octavia off the road into a brick wall. Qelia also lost control of his car and hit a tree as he was knocked unconscious.
Driver rammed taxi off road and into wall
The greater efflorescence on the brick wall under the porch tells me the soil under the porch slopes down toward the foundation wall.
How to deal with foundation moisture De Marne: Pesky leak
However, Mick, 70, said: "Not to hedge around but we arrived at the impasse of hitting a brick wall.
Fleetwood Mac 'hit wall with Lindsey'
Hoping that you'll make a good living painting, writing, or singing means that you will inevitably run smack into a brick wall. This brick wall is the reality that comfortably making ends meet, and chasing a career in the arts, are inexplicably incompatible.
Reflections: Brick walls exist for good reason
The job I'm doing is a solid, bare brick wall with imperial brick sizes.
Brick up a window like a pro; Being a brickie isn't easy. Here's how to master the moves YOUR HOME With Bake Off finalist and builder Richard Burr
Research shows that patients looking out at trees had shorter hospital stays and took fewer pain medications than those viewing a brick wall.
The impact of hospital design on health
HELICOPTER footage has emerged of a prolific burglar slamming a stolen car into a brick wall before running from police.
Burglar slammed stolen car into a wall
She said: "I painted a sort of sausage shape on every adjacent red brick wall and wrote underneath in large print: "The Big Log".
Revealed - actress's colourful past
The church has a temporary brick wall on its south side.
After 120 years work on church finalised
I am hoping that Amelia's story will help demolish someone else's brick wall for fair and equal medical care.
A life of quality
CHALLENGE The challenge of this combination project, according to Tirmizi and Scot Campbell was to make two separate apartments feel like they were always one apartment and in this case, a brick wall split the apartments previously, so the only way to achieve a large opening to unify the two apartments was to punch through the brick wall.
Clean aesthetics
WE have a long, curved brick wall surrounding our garden.
Be a brick.. get us out of wall crisis
Taichung, Taiwan, July 21, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Golden Spot Industry, with more than thirty years of professional experience in welding equipment, realizes this requirement and engages itself in developing the Ladder Type Welding Machine in order to widen the application for the reinforcement of brick wall and block ladder mesh such as brick reinforcement, brick wall reinforced mesh, reinforced mesh, ladder wire mash and block ladder mesh, which all can be made by this welding machine.
Golden Spot's New Ladder Type Wire Mesh Machine Has Wide Applicability to Brick Wall Reinforced Mesh and Block Ladder Mesh