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hit a brick wall

hit a brick wall is the alternative form of hit a wall.

Meaning of hit a wall

Verb

hit a wall (third-person singular simple present hits a wall, present participle hitting a wall, simple past and past participle hit a wall)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To come up against an insurmountable problem; to be brought to a halt.
    • “One day we just hit a wall,” said Dr. Steven Furr, who practices family medicine in rural Jackson, Ala., where he has even made house calls to give patients their Covid shots. “We had vaccinated everybody who wanted to be vaccinated and there was nobody left.”2021 October 11, Jan Hoffman, quoting Steven Furr, “Boosters Are Complicating Efforts to Persuade the Unvaccinated to Get Shots”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of hit a brick wall

third-person singular presenthits a brick wall
present participlehitting a brick wall
past participlehit a brick wall
pasthit a brick wall

Questions about hit a brick wall

What is hit a brick wall the alternative form of?
Hit a brick wall is the alternative form of hit a wall.

Words near hit a brick wall in the dictionary

  1. histrionizing
  2. histrions
  3. hists
  4. histt.
  5. hit
  6. hit a brick wall
  7. hit a clip
  8. hit a false note
  9. hit a home run
  10. hit a lick
  11. hit a nerve

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