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shithouseNote: This page may contain content that is offensive or inappropriate for some readers. be built like a brick shithouse1. slang To be very muscular and strong. Bert is built like a brick shithouse, so get him to help you move all this furniture! 2. slang To be very buxom and curvaceous. Mary has a great body—she's built like a brick shithouse. See also: brick, built, like, shithouse built like a brick outhouse1. Very sturdy and well-constructed. This building is built like a brick outhouse, so I'm not surprised that it's still standing after the hurricane. 2. slang Very muscular and strong. Bert is built like a brick outhouse, so get him to help you move all this furniture! 3. slang Very buxom and curvaceous. Mary has a great body—she's built like a brick outhouse. See also: brick, built, like built like a brick shithouse1. slang Very muscular and strong. Bert is built like a brick shithouse, so get him to help you move all this furniture! 2. slang Very buxom and curvaceous. Mary has a great body—she's built like a brick shithouse. See also: brick, built, like, shithouse shithousevulgar slang An outhouse, an enclosed toilet that is located outdoors, separate from a house or other building. Used especially in the phrase "built like a brick shithouse," meaning very large and muscular or very buxom and curvaceous. I hate staying at my grandpa's old cabin, because we all have to share the stinky shithouse outside when we're there. Mary's new boyfriend is build like a brick shithouse! I certainly wouldn't want to pick a fight with him. Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. built like a brick outhouse and built like a brick shithouseFig. well-built-either strong or full-sized. (Built more strongly than is typical. The second form is potentially offensive. Use only with discretion.) Look at that guy's muscles—he's built like a brick shithouse. This garage is built like a brick outhouse. It'll last for years. See also: brick, built, like McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. built like a brick shithouse BRITISH, INFORMAL, VERY RUDEIf you say that someone is built like a brick shithouse, you mean that they are extremely tall, broad, and strong-looking. This guy was built like a brick shithouse, with a huge mustache and smouldering brown eyes. Note: You can use brick-shithouse before a noun to describe someone who looks like this. He brought his brick-shithouse mate with him. Note: A shithouse is a slang word for a toilet. A brick shithouse is a strong outside toilet built using bricks instead of wood, from the time before many houses had indoor bathrooms. See also: brick, built, like, shithouse Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. be built like a brick shithouse (of a person) have a very solid physique.See also: brick, built, like, shithouse Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary built like a brick shithouse1. mod. pertaining to a very strong and well-built person. (Usually refers to a male. Refers to the sturdiness of an outhouse [outdoor toilet] built of brick rather than the traditional wooden outhouse. Usually objectionable.) Chuck is built like a brick shithouse. The only fat on him is where his brain ought to be. 2. mod. pertaining to a beautiful and curvaceous woman. (Refers to the imagined curving and uneven walls of an outhouse built hastily and carelessly of brick. This sense is a misinterpretation of the first sense. Usually objectionable.) Look at that dame! She’s really built like a brick shithouse. See also: brick, built, like, shithouse McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions See also:- blimp
- blimp out
- come aloft
- aloft
- gun
- guns
- brassic lint
- flash
References in periodicals archive Miller's "brick shithouse," which binds Sadean transgression to the excretory like mortar to brick, is conjured here in Matherly's entwined notion of rationality and irrationality, pain and pleasure. Justin Matherly Put in coarser terms to Newmarket trainer Robert Cowell, he said: "Mate, I'm telling you it's worse than soft to shithouse." Downpourf ailst o sink 'unbelievable'O rtensia I mean America will shoot all over the shithouse wall if this jazz goes on." 5. Sour grapes in the big muddy: left behind. (FINDINGS BRIEF NOTES OF INTEREST ON ALL TOPICS) Putin grasped the public mood, promising Russians he would "wipe out the Chechen thugs wherever they are, right up to the last shithouse." By January 2000, when Yeltsin appointed him acting President until a March election, Putin basked in a 77% approval rating, handily winning election. Putin's Statecraft A fairly typical comment, albeit not put so bluntly, was Harry's assessment of his job in a Canberra laundromat in 1981 : 'It's a shithouse job. 'It's a lot of hardwork': the experiences of student-workers in university term-time employment and my country is a shithouse. When his request for amnesty was heard in 1951, he was supported by a leading Jewish organization for reconciliation among the French. Close your beautiful eyes: the denigration of Louis-Ferdinand Celine--a prelude to his evisceration & inquiry into the fate of his "unfortunate plagiarist," Henry Miller, "The American Celine." Later, lines like, "I'm crazy as a shithouse rat," seem ready-made for parody. Brave Berry fuels 'Frankie' One of her strongest angels is the writer Tobias Wolff, whose literary support and friendship sustains and rescues her: "For the unbeliever I am, Toby's wave in my direction is incalculable shithouse luck. Putting down the butcher knife of alcoholism The waterfront has been obscured by a wall of brick and glass, the centrepiece being "a brick shithouse and parking garage known as Atlantic Place, ... Beautiful losers: the Flaneur in St. John's literature can do whatever we can to get them colored folks out of the shithouse. Fustian days: book one: Sonic Goddam Boom Like a dung beetle, Binx finds more than the stench of death and decay in the great shithouse of life. Walker Percy's Bible notes and his fiction: gracious obscenity Janina Gavankar is walking toward you, all lanky swagger and smoldering eyes, when it hits you, hard--this is what they mean by "built like a brick shithouse." Gavankar, a dark-haired, Indian-Dutch Chicago native, exudes a captivating, whirlwind force such that within minutes of her arrival, lesbians, nay people, are attracted to her, circling her like she's a superstar even though they don't know her name. Who's your daddy? Actor Janina Gavankar, The L Word's Papi, has set tongues wagging, hearts fluttering and loins melting as the one of the sexiest players on television. We caught a few moments with the shooting star before fame goes to her head And while someone ought to tell the control freak that is Mr Blair that it's up to others to decide his legacy, the one thing he can be sure of is that he and his party will be remembered for the day an 82-year-old man - foolish enough to believe we live in a democracy where people can voice their opinions about their elected representatives - was bodily thrown out of the Labour Party conference by four heavies built like your archetypal brick shithouse. Carole Malone: Blair's bullies won't beat us A trapper could fetch twenty dollars for a scalp, but the animal was so reviled that its pelt was hardly worth nailing to the side of a drafty shithouse. Even some Native Americans loathed the panther, since it ,*,as associated with Machtando, the Evil One, and because they believed that the souls of unfaithful wives were reborn as cougars. Aslan resurrected: searching for wild panthers in a domesticated world Putin's 1999 vow to "rub them out in the shithouse" was the magic combination of determination and vulgarity that his electorate, so desperate for order, wanted to hear. The curse of the Caucasus |