anything or anyone that is impenetrable, unrelenting, unyielding, etc.
Examples of 'brick wall' in a sentence
brick wall
I'm hitting a brick wall.
The Sun (2017)
You provided receipts for recovery costs but hit a brick wall.
The Sun (2016)
We seem to have hit a brick wall.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
To hit a brick wall of organisation.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
It was like being hit by a brick wall.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
It must have been like hitting against a brick wall.
The Sun (2009)
History suggests it is rare for economies to hit a brick wall.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
And then he hit a brick wall.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The tree hit the brick wall on the corner and she went underneath the brick and the tree.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
So many of us fear there is something wrong with us or have hit an emotional brick wall.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
At the final presentation to senior management, a brick wall suddenly appeared.
Larry Downes THE STRATEGY MACHINE (2002)
Rather than build thick brick walls to keep the world out, they built windows so that the world could see inside.
Christianity Today (2000)
DOWNSIDE The kitchen looks on to a high brick wall in the courtyard garden.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
There are two courtyards, with their original high Elizabethan brick walls intact.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Doing a U-turn when you've spent two years building brick walls on the other carriageway is challenging.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
I chose this corner of the garden because the brick wall has character, and leads the eye to the pots from the right of the painting.
Crawshaw, Alwyn Crawshaw's Watercolour Studio (1993)
The Germans cut through the thick concrete foundation of a high brick wall, and would soon have been free men had the discovery not been made.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
I spoke to him on Wednesday and it was like speaking to a brick wall - he just looks at his phone!
The Sun (2016)
All related terms of 'brick wall'
hit a brick wall
unable to continue or make progress because of a hindrance
come up against a brick wall
to arrive at a situation in which something is stopping you from doing what you want and preventing you from making any progress
hit/come up against a brick wall
If you hit a brick wall or come up against a brick wall , you are unable to continue or make progress because something stops you.
banging one's head against a brick wall
persisting with doing or saying something despite continued unsuccessful results
bang one's head against a brick wall
to try to achieve something impossible
be banging one's head against a brick wall
If you are banging your head against a brick wall , what you are saying or doing is not having any effect although you keep saying or doing it.
be banging your head against a brick wall
to feel frustrated because someone is stopping you from making progress in what you are trying to do
to bang your head against a brick wall
If you say that you are banging your head against a wall , you are emphasizing that you are frustrated because someone is stopping you from making progress in something.