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hit a wall

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hit a/the (brick) wall

  (informal)

if you hit the wall when you are trying to achieve something, you reach a situation where you cannot make any more progress We've just about hit the wall in terms of what we can do to balance the budget. The enquiry hit a brick wall of banking security.

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