Sentence examples for ask this brick from inspiring English sources

The phrase "ask this brick" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used in a context where someone is suggesting that a brick (or an inanimate object) is as knowledgeable or responsive as a person, often implying that the person being addressed is not providing useful information.
Example: "If you want to know the answer, you might as well ask this brick, since it seems like no one here knows anything."
Alternatives: "consult this brick" or "inquire of this brick".

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He would say, "I asked the brick what it wanted to be, and it said, 'I want to make an arch.' " Or, "The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building".

(They also liked the mystical musings of Louis Kahn, who would say that he had asked the brick what it wanted to become, and that it had wanted to become an arch.

The architect Louis I. Kahn once asked a brick, "What do you want to be?" What, then, does SmartWrap want to be? "It wants to be whatever you want it to be," Mr. Kieran said.

He asked if Mr. Brick needed to see a lawyer.

The women asked for small brick houses, arranged like a village, and a place for exercise, "so we can use up our energy and not row in the evenings".

"Stress was, in the days before local management of schools, writing letters in triplicate to the local authority asking for a brick wall to be built in the playground or for a bit of extra money to keep an excellent maths teacher - and not receiving a reply for weeks".

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You may as well ask for a toy brick or a toy Stephen Mulhern.

Like the time when we were asked to carry bricks one by one from a pile 25 metres away, and someone in our group made of westerns quietly asked our Nepali hosts "Don't you have a wheelbarrow or something?" They didn't.

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