drop a brick

One boy dropped a brick on the corpse to make sure she was dead.

"Now would I be likely to drop a brick of that sort, old egg?"

They will drop a brick which can crack the egg.

That would be like dropping a brick on a spiderweb.

An example of this would be dropping a brick off a bridge, landing on a person's head, killing him.

Don't walk too close to buildings, lest someone drop a brick on you.

Players are disqualified if they drop a brick, break one, or fall off the plank.

For a moment there was that special kind of silence that tells you when you've dropped a brick.

There is a penalty incurred each time a player drops a brick without starting a reaction.

Then, looking at his face, she thought: 'I'm dropping a brick.'

'He didn't realize he'd dropped a brick when he admitted that he knew where we were going.

"Drop a brick on them?

"I say, did I drop a brick?"

Once paid, Kelly would send crews out to drop a brick down each chimney they'd constructed, smashing the glass panes and solving the problem.

I mean, it was worse than hitting your thumb with a heavy hammer or dropping a brick on your toe because it didn't stop.

'There's a difference, I suggest, between dropping a brick and dropping a detonator.' '

(In one strip, Ignatz tries to trick him into dropping a brick onto Krazy's head from above).

'Whatever happens,' Michael thought, 'I've got to keep my head shut, or I shall be dropping a brick.'

Jenny tells Jase that she wants another baby, so he tries everything to make sure he's unable to conceive children, eventually dropping a brick onto his groin.

At the age of five, Odetta falls into a coma when a sociopath named Jack Mort dropped a brick onto her head from the top of a building.

When Odetta was a child, he dropped a brick on her head, sending the little girl into a coma and also occasioning the birth of Detta Walker, Odetta's hidden sister.

For the first time since a man named Jack Mort had dropped a brick on the head of a child who was only there to be hit because a white taxi driver had taken one look and driven away (and had not her father, in his pride, refused to try again for fear of a second refusal), she was whole.