Hit a Brick Wall


🗓️ Idiom: Hit a Brick Wall


💬 Meaning

  • To suddenly stop making progress.
  • It means facing a barrier or problem that’s difficult to overcome.

🧠 Example Sentences

  • We hit a brick wall when trying to reduce shipping times without extra costs.
  • The negotiations hit a brick wall over the delivery terms.
  • Our expansion plans hit a brick wall due to new regulations.

🏛️ Origin

This idiom refers to the experience of physically running into a solid wall, which stops you immediately. In business, it describes situations where efforts or progress suddenly stop because of a major obstacle.


📝 Practice Exercises

1. Fill in the blank:

Our plan to open a second warehouse __________ when the city denied the building permit.

Answer

hit a brick wall

2. Choose the correct meaning of “hit a brick wall”:

A) To make fast progress
B) To face a major obstacle
C) To take a break
D) To build something new

Answer

B) To face a major obstacle

3. Rewrite the sentence using the idiom:

“We couldn’t continue the project because of a serious problem.” → Change the sentence using: hit a brick wall

Answer

We couldn’t continue the project because we hit a brick wall.


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