Sentence examples for proverbial brick from inspiring English sources

Inevitably, it hit the proverbial brick wall, in this case the Great Wall of China.

Players never went through the proverbial brick wall for him, however, instead they trusted him to show them the quickest way around it.

He was built like the proverbial brick sh*thouse, and had a mane of long black hair and the same shiny bright red eyes.

You will learn how to shift those obstacles, improve your thinking and cease to bang your head against the proverbial brick wall.

But it is said that a successful person is one who can lay a foundation with the proverbial bricks that are thrown their way.

Readers responded by pouring the proverbial ton of bricks on my head.

It would behave better with the proverbial ton of bricks in the back.

The law comes down on them like the proverbial ton of bricks if they trespass.

Was this a Serbo-Croatian version of the Globe, made for export?... Was I the victim of a practical joke?... Panic should have hit me like the proverbial ton of bricks.

It's since been removed, but it's almost as if it must be duly written in history that Lindsay has once again botched the job, once again sent her proverbial Porsche ploughing into a brick wall of failure, drunk or high or whatever at the wheel.

It's since been removed, but it's almost as if it must be duly written in history that Lohan has once again botched the job, once again sent her proverbial Porsche crashing into a brick wall of failure, drunk or high or whatever at the wheel.