| 单词 | another brick in the wall |
| 释义 | > as lemmasanother brick in the wall P4. another brick in the wall: a small component (of a much larger structure, system, or process, in early use esp. one being constructed or developed); an insignificant individual within a large population or community.Popularized esp. as the collective title of a series of three songs by the British band Pink Floyd in their 1979 rock opera The Wall. ΚΠ 1867 Sharpe's London Mag. Feb. 60/1 It was only another brick in the wall of separation. 1945 Corona (Calif.) Daily Independent 2 Mar. 4/2 Branding the..bills as ‘merely another brick in the wall of totalitarianism being built in America’, the group..denounced the compulsory features of the proposals. 1979 R. Waters Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 (transcribed from song) in ‘Pink Floyd’ The Wall Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone... All in all you're just another brick in the wall. 1988 J. Burchill in Sex & Sensibility (1992) 29 The denial of the importance of size..is just another brick in the wall of male egoarmour. 2004 C. Byron Testosterone Inc. iv. 47 He wasn't special, he wasn't unique, he was just another brick in the wall. < as lemmas |
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