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bricking

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Present participle of brick

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This means that if we're bricking it, not only do our eyes start darting but our limbs start fidgeting and because of our gangly frames, this tell gets amplified in a cartoonish sort of way.

For most people, taking back the knighthood doesn't begin to satisfy the demand for reparations; bricking the windows of his $2m mansion, as someone did in 2009, seems more like it.

So far, his proposed solutions include curbing immigration by entirely bricking up the Channel Tunnel "with British bricks", making Alex Salmond the First Minister of Norwich "so he can get to understand what being ignored by the rest of the country is really like" and elevating South Thanet's status to the country's new capital, with a demilitarized zone separating it from North Thanet.

He's running on the manifesto pledges of "one penny pints", "bricking up the Channel Tunnel" and having "a war with Germany - if they're up for it".

Then there's this: "She wondered whether it was possible to know a truth, and then quickly unknow it, bricking up that portal of knowledge until every pinpoint of light was covered over".

A. According to J.B. Straubel, Tesla's chief technical officer, "less than 10" cars are "susceptible" to bricking.

One misstep during a root and you could turn the phone into an expensive paperweight, a mishap the Android community calls bricking.

The update also prevents hackers from deliberately bricking users' iPhones by tricking them into setting the date to 1 January 1970 using the smartphone's built-in automatic time adjustment function by pretending to be a time server.

Users are not likely to do it by accident, although pranksters have taken to bricking Apple Store demo units.

The cartoon shows a menacing looking Netanyahu wielding a blood-splattered trowel, bricking screaming Palestinians into the wall's structure.

By the second ad-break, friends had started ringing me to single him out for bitchy comments: "He's bricking it" and "nobber".

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