brick it en · VERB
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
Etymology
Related to shit a brick.
Meanings
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(slang, vulgar) To be scared; to be terrified.
The first time I performed in public I was bricking it.
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.
2022 July 11, Harry Taylor, quoting Harry Shimmin, “British tourists survive avalanche in Tian Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan”, in The Guardian:I always replied with a casual and breezy ‘Iʼll be fine,’ but deep down 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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bricked it | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| bricked it | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| bricking it | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| bricks it | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |