The phrase "a brick of a" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is large, heavy, or substantial, often in a figurative sense.
Example: "The book was a brick of a novel, filled with intricate plots and deep character development."
Alternatives: "a hefty" or "a substantial".
His phone – a brick of a thing he calls his office – rings loudly.
Dillian Whyte's version of the kitchen-sink drama changed that, landing heavily in the second round with a brick of a left hook and taking Joshua beyond three rounds for the first time.
The British design team's colorful body of work has been collected in "The Collier Campbell Archive: 50 Years of Passion in Pattern" ($75; Ilex), a brick of a book that contains seemingly everything they ever produced.
Monetary policy was also too tight the main reason, argued Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz in a brick of a book 45 years ago, why downturn became Depression.It is no bad thing, then, that as an academic Ben Bernanke studied the Depression in earnest looking in particular at how an impaired banking system had made the slump longer and deeper.
Lommen cites some acknowledged benchmarks, including Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau's "Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large: Office for Metropolitan Architecture" (1995), one of the first in the fashion for "bulky" books, a brick of a volume that exhibits the synergy of image and text (à la Quentin Fiore), and Stefan Sagmeister's "Sagmeister.
I was the last to get an email account in the late 1990s, the last to indulge in online shopping and I still sport a brick of a mobile phone rather than a flash Android or iPhone (this last because one of the prerequisites for my mobile phone is that I have to be able to fling it at a wall if I lose my temper).
Working a brick of henna into a murky froth, they lavish their attentions on my hair.
A coffee, a fresh sesame bagel and a brick of cream cheese costs $5.
Until the website was shut down last month, it was the place to score, say, a brick of cocaine with a few anonymous strokes on a computer keyboard.
The designer Rene Lezard pinned a breakfast invitation to a brick of beige felt (to pin thumb-size to-do lists?).
After six quick moves with the knife, he is left with a brick of potato, just a little bit bigger than a half-pound pat of butter.
