be banging head against a brick wall



be banging/hitting your head against a brick wall

to keep asking someone to do something which they never do I've been trying to get the rules changed for years now but I'm hitting my head against a brick wall. He never listens to me - sometimes I feel like I'm banging my head against a brick wall.
See also: bang, brick, head, wall

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
JonÁŠ-Czech, Slovak
AgÁTa-Czech
Jameel-Arabic
LauraLAWR-ə (English), LOW-rah (Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Dutch), LAW-oo-raw (Hungarian)English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Polish, Slovene, Croa
&Thorn;ÓRleifr-Ancient Scandinavian
MochÁN-Ancient Irish