单词 | like a ton of bricks |
释义 | like a ton of bricksVery heavily, without subtlety. For example, If he doesn't like your work, he'll come down on you like a ton of bricks. This expression, often coupled with come down on (def. 1), replaced the earlier thousand of brick or hundred of brick. The allusion in all these is to the considerable weight of such a load. [Early 1900s] Words nearby like a ton of brickslike a lamb to the slaughter, like anything, like a shot, like as not, like as two peas in a pod, like a ton of bricks, like clockwork, like crazy, like death warmed over, like father, like son, like fun The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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