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like a ton of bricks en · ADP
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(colloquial, qualifier:simile) Very strongly; very heavily; often unexpectedly.
“I still feel so bad about that. I fell for you like a ton of bricks when I first saw you onstage with the band.[…]"
2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:If you're late she'll come down on you like a ton of bricks.
The Defendant then came down on me like a ton of bricks, as my eye will prove.
1884 February 2, Punch, page 52:Senator Breaux: Did you see this coming on gradually, or did it hit you all of a sudden like a ton of bricks?
2000, United States Senate, The Boomers are Coming: The Challenge of Family Caregiving : Hearing Before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, Monroe, LA, October 11, 1999, →ISBN, page 34:
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