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hit the bricks

hit the bricks idiom

Go out on strike, as in The union voted to hit the bricks as soon as their contract expired. [Slang; 1940s]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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