hot brickn.

Brit.

/ˌhɒt ˈbrɪk/, U.S.

/ˌhɑt ˈbrɪk/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hot adj., brick n.¹

Etymology: < hot adj. + brick n.¹

colloquial.

1. In plural. on hot bricks: in a state of anxiety, agitation, or restlessness. Chiefly in similative phrase like a cat on hot bricks.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > bodily movement > [phrase] > nimble movement

like a cat on hot bricks1840

the world > movement > restlessness > [phrase] > state of extreme restlessness

as nervous as a witch1853

like a cat on hot bricks1886

1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 285 To go like a cat upon a hot bake-stone.]

1840 Female Freemasons I. 157 Mrs. Talbot was on hot bricks;..what reports might not be spread in Seaforth the next day?

1854 Times 19 May 9/4 The coachman represented her to be ‘like a cat on hot bricks’.

1886 ‘J. S. Winter’ Army Society xvi Lady Mainwaring looked..like a cat on hot bricks.

1958 ‘A. Gilbert’ Death against Clock 165 Crook also was like a cat on hot bricks.

1961 P. G. Wodehouse Service with Smile iii. 45 Having become accustomed to this kind of thing myself,..I have lost that cat-on-hot-bricks feeling which I must have had at one time.

2006 Northern Echo (Nexis) 28 July 10 I've come to talk to her at her home,..and yet she's nervous, a woman on hot bricks.

2. In similative phrases, as to drop (a thing or person) like a hot brick: = hot potato n. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or delicacy > a difficult or delicate matter or task

nicety1725

egg-dance1801

hot brick1865

hot potato1952

1865 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Gaz. 21 Oct. Jake Stewart was the only late Republican who dared to mention opposition to the suffrage question, and..was glad to drop that issue like a hot brick.

1887 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Dec. 769 He was simply devoted to Miss Beaubien until Alice Renwick came. Then he dropped her like a hot brick.

1930 W. S. Maugham Cakes & Ale xiv. 169 She dropped him, but not like a hot brick or a hot potato.

1973 Times 26 Nov. 21/3 The workers of northern France..apparently are quite sure that ‘Paris’..will drop them and their interests like a hot brick the moment the energy crisis really sinks in outside Paris's blinkered borders.

2007 Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 13 Aug. 82 [She] was fed up with boyfriends dropping her like a hot brick when they discovered her father was a policeman.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	hot brick
释义	hot brickn. Brit. /ˌhɒt ˈbrɪk/, U.S. /ˌhɑt ˈbrɪk/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hot adj., brick n.¹ Etymology: < hot adj. + brick n.¹ colloquial. 1. In plural. on hot bricks: in a state of anxiety, agitation, or restlessness. Chiefly in similative phrase like a cat on hot bricks. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > bodily movement > [phrase] > nimble movement like a cat on hot bricks1840 the world > movement > restlessness > [phrase] > state of extreme restlessness as nervous as a witch1853 like a cat on hot bricks1886 1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 285 To go like a cat upon a hot bake-stone.] 1840 Female Freemasons I. 157 Mrs. Talbot was on hot bricks;..what reports might not be spread in Seaforth the next day? 1854 Times 19 May 9/4 The coachman represented her to be ‘like a cat on hot bricks’. 1886 ‘J. S. Winter’ Army Society xvi Lady Mainwaring looked..like a cat on hot bricks. 1958 ‘A. Gilbert’ Death against Clock 165 Crook also was like a cat on hot bricks. 1961 P. G. Wodehouse Service with Smile iii. 45 Having become accustomed to this kind of thing myself,..I have lost that cat-on-hot-bricks feeling which I must have had at one time. 2006 Northern Echo (Nexis) 28 July 10 I've come to talk to her at her home,..and yet she's nervous, a woman on hot bricks. 2. In similative phrases, as to drop (a thing or person) like a hot brick: = hot potato n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or delicacy > a difficult or delicate matter or task nicety1725 egg-dance1801 hot brick1865 hot potato1952 1865 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Gaz. 21 Oct. Jake Stewart was the only late Republican who dared to mention opposition to the suffrage question, and..was glad to drop that issue like a hot brick. 1887 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Dec. 769 He was simply devoted to Miss Beaubien until Alice Renwick came. Then he dropped her like a hot brick. 1930 W. S. Maugham Cakes & Ale xiv. 169 She dropped him, but not like a hot brick or a hot potato. 1973 Times 26 Nov. 21/3 The workers of northern France..apparently are quite sure that ‘Paris’..will drop them and their interests like a hot brick the moment the energy crisis really sinks in outside Paris's blinkered borders. 2007 Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 13 Aug. 82 [She] was fed up with boyfriends dropping her like a hot brick when they discovered her father was a policeman. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1840
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