Contents
- 1 English
- 1.1 Etymology
- 1.2 Pronunciation
- 1.3 Verb
- 1.4 Further reading
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Related to sh*t a brick.
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (AU) (file)
Verb[edit]
brick it (third-person singular simple present bricks it, present participle bricking it, simple past and past participle bricked it)
- (slang, vulgar) To be scared; to be terrified.
The first time I performed in public I was bricking it.
2020, Louise Curtis with Sarah Johnson, A Nurseʼs Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis, Pan Books, page 70:
I always replied with a casual and breezy ‘Iʼll be fine,’ but deep down I was bricking it.
2022 July 11, Harry Taylor, quoting Harry Shimmin, “British tourists survive avalanche in Tian Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan”, in The Guardian[1]:
I felt in control, but regardless, when the snow started coming over and it got dark/harder to breathe, I was bricking it and I thought I might die.
Further reading[edit]
- Jonathon Green (2024), “brick itv.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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