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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhit a (brick) wallhit a (brick) wallinformal to suddenly not be able to make any progress I felt I’d hit a wall with my playing. → hit
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hit a (brick) wall• A man and his woman pillion passenger died instantly when they lost control of the machine and hit a wall.• But by the mid-1970s, his career apparently hit a wall.• But then Sumlin came on and hit a wall.• He died because his car hit a wall.• In these sessions, men generally will talk about the conflicts between job and family, but then hit a wall.• Now she has hit a brick wall and has written to me to highlight the problem.• He hit a wall hard enough to briefly ignite a magnesium wheel, but refused to slow down.• Must rising wages and expanding production hit a brick wall, leading to layoffs and falling output?
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