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单词 like a thousand of brick
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like a thousand (also hundred) of brick(s)
b. Originally U.S. like a thousand (also hundred) of brick(s) and variants: with great force; very violently or severely. Often in to come down on like a thousand (also hundred) of brick(s): to punish or reprimand (someone) severely. Now rare.In later use largely replaced by to come down on like a ton of bricks: see Phrases 3c.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > violently [phrase]
of hardc1330
at (the) utterance1480
hip and thigh1560
with a vengeance1568
with a powderc1600
with a siserary1607
full fling1614
with the vengeance1693
like a thousand (also hundred) of brick(s)1836
1836 Hill's Yankee Story Teller's Own Bk. 32 Darn the Yankee tin pedlar..if I don't be into him with a thousand of brick!
1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. iv. 50 If I don't pitch into Ben Parson's ribs like a tousand of bricks.
1841 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 16 Mar. 2/2 They..rounded the first turn pretty much in a heap like a thousand of brick.
1886 R. Brown Spunyarn & Spindrift vii. 123 The people at the Admiralty will be down on you like a hundred of bricks.
1911 A. Bennett Hilda Lessways iii. ii. 226 I had the whole gang down on me instantly like a thousand of bricks.
1969 Agric. Hist. 43 19 Because of my debt to Fussell, I have no desire to fall upon him like ‘a hundred of bricks’.
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