brickbats
砖头,砖块,砖头棒子,砖头棒
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Definitions
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- : a piece of broken brick, especially one used as a missile.
- : any rocklike missile.
- : an unkind or unfavorable remark; caustic criticism: The critics greeted the play with brickbats.
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Examples
If the institution of monarchy was merely feigning complete indifference to the now all-too familiar prospect of yet another brickbat being lobbed at it courtesy of Oprah and the Sussexes, it was certainly doing a very convincing job.
That earned brickbats from former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, who said in interviews with various media outlets this week that Wall Street has too often tried to have it both ways.
A feeling of sadness and longingThat is not like being sick, And resembles sorrow onlyAs a brickbat resembles a brick.
It set Tom to thinking; he said afterwards the spectacle was enough to make a brickbat wake up and think.
Some of our readers may think that this was a fit punishment for having “pashed” the toad to “death with a brickbat.”
There isn't a mineral in Louisiana, unless it is a brickbat.
I was there myself, and did what I could to quiet the tumult, receiving more than one brickbat for my interference.