单词 | beat one's head against the wall |
释义 | beat one's head against the wallAlso, bang or run one's head against or into a brick wall. Waste one's time in a hopeless enterprise, as in I have tried many times to convince him to stop smoking, but I'm beating my head against a brick wall. The metaphoric phrase alludes to a physical expression of frustration. [Late 1500s] Also see beat the air. Words nearby beat one's head against the wallbeatnik, beatniks, beat off, Beaton, beat one's brains out, beat one's head against the wall, beat out, beat poets, Beatrice, Beatrix, beats me The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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