Verb
hit a brick wall (third-person singular simple present hits a brick wall, present participle hitting a brick wall, simple past and past participle hit a brick wall)
Alternative form of hit a wall
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
I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, Ill hit a brick wall and need to sleep. Hattie Morahan
When I was at Berkeley, the framework of quantum field theory could calculate the dynamics of electromagnetism. It could roughly describe the motion of the weak nuclear force, radiation. But it hit a brick wall with the strong interaction, the binding force. David Gross
I thought we'd turned a corner. Maybe we did, but we hit a brick wall anyway. Sylvia Day