Not in China, of course where house building is concerned but you get the point. A brick wall stands for an insurmountable obstacle, too great a hindrance to remove.
In the NBA, they talk of young players hitting a rookie wall. That means that often, in midseason, many of these rookies (those who are playing pro basketball for the first year) suddenly stop making the normal progress they are expected to make as they continue to learn the ropes. You know, they’ve been making steady progress but all of a sudden, for example, they are missing shots they normally make. A lot of this is mental, as some players begin to think ahead of themselves while others are weighted down the burden of huge expectations.
Anyways, a rookie wall is a wall that stops a player in their tracks, rendering them impossible to move further ahead.
And it is also proof that a brick wall is, well, just a wall. However, “brick wall” is a fixed phrase. Though often overused and sounding trite, it is still very commonplace in everyday language (even though brick as a building material has become rather brittle in contrast to other later inventions).
Vive la brick wall! In other words, I suspect this trite cliché is probably here to stay. Here are media examples:
1. Jenny Gregson is answering David Cameron’s call for more people to create businesses in parts of the country hit by public sector spending cuts.
But her expansion plans have hit a bureaucratic brick wall and, frustrated, she has joined The Daily Telegraph’s red tape campaign.
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