单词 | brick-throwing |
释义 | brick-throwingn. The action of throwing a brick or bricks at someone; the use of bricks as missiles. Also figurative: the hurling of condemnations or insults. Cf. brickbatting n. ΚΠ 1823 Statesman 20 Aug. The mania for brick throwing spread far and wide, and the dangerous missile was every where seen in fearful elevation through the field. 1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 11 Oct. (Final ed.) (Style section) b1 He resisted the line taken by many liberal poets because he resented the shrillness, the brick-throwing, the ‘misinformation and dishonesty’ of some [Vietnam] war critics. 2002 Z. Radcliffe London Irish xviii. 237 We were shooting an ad for Pimm's [in Belfast]... The brick-throwing stops as the warring factions eye the ruby liquid. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1823 |
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