hit a brick wall



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hit a brick wall

To come up against an immovable or insurmountable difficulty or obstacle. Our project was going well, but we hit a brick wall when our funding was suddenly cut.
See also: brick, hit, wall

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Traugott-German
Bruna-Italian, Portuguese, Croatian
Marlen (1)-Russian
Uros-Serbian
Abd Al-Latif-Arabic
Algy