英语词汇“like a brick”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†a. like bricks: with great force or violence; very vigorously; (hence) with great enthusiasm. Similarly like a brick. Obsolete.Originally with reference to the crash with which a quantity of bricks fall, but later chiefly as an expression of approval at the vigour with which a task is approached: cf. sense A. 6.

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1832 Satirist 14 Oct. 334/3 The musquitos have either smelt it [sc. cholera] or received the intelligence per their own peculiar telegraph; for now..‘they are bowling off like bricks!’

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 291 Out flys the fare like bricks.

1856 C. Kingsley Let. May in Lett. & Memories of Life (2011) I. 277 You fellows worked like bricks.

1856 F. E. Paget Owlet of Owlstone Edge 139 She sits her horse as if she was part of him;..hunts like..a brick.

1912 J. W. Witty Colonial Songs 3 In the month of October, '66, Sir Donald McLean was in a fix For the Hau Haus were going to fight like bricks.

单词	like a brick
释义	> as lemmas like a brick †a. like bricks: with great force or violence; very vigorously; (hence) with great enthusiasm. Similarly like a brick. Obsolete.Originally with reference to the crash with which a quantity of bricks fall, but later chiefly as an expression of approval at the vigour with which a task is approached: cf. sense A. 6. ΚΠ 1832 Satirist 14 Oct. 334/3 The musquitos have either smelt it [sc. cholera] or received the intelligence per their own peculiar telegraph; for now..‘they are bowling off like bricks!’ 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 291 Out flys the fare like bricks. 1856 C. Kingsley Let. May in Lett. & Memories of Life (2011) I. 277 You fellows worked like bricks. 1856 F. E. Paget Owlet of Owlstone Edge 139 She sits her horse as if she was part of him;..hunts like..a brick. 1912 J. W. Witty Colonial Songs 3 In the month of October, '66, Sir Donald McLean was in a fix For the Hau Haus were going to fight like bricks. extracted from brickn.¹adj.¹ < as lemmas
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