brick wall

Speech parts

1. brick wall - Noun

2. brick wall - Verb

Meaning

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brick,‎ wall. A wall made of bricks.

(figuratively) An obstacle.
The investigators came up against a brick wall in their search for the missing money when they discovered it had been transferred overseas.

(sound engineering) A type of anti-aliasing filter with a steep cutoff.

(figuratively) Someone who is silent or unresponsive.

To build a brick wall around.

(sound engineering) To filter using a brick wall filter.

To halt or limit abruptly.

To be uncooperative and unresponsive.

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Examples

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit. David Suzuki

Choose a love and work to make it true, and somehow, something will happen, something you couldn't plan, will come along to move like to like, to set you loose, to set you on the way to your next brick wall. Richard Bach

Ask a simple question, get a simple brick wall. Lois McMaster Bujold

The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point. Rupert Everett

You get a lot of these blows, said the busy bee when he flew against a brick wall. Finnish Proverb

It's like talking to a brick wall. Spanish Proverb

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