hit the (brick) wall

hit the (brick) wall
hit a/the (brick) wall informal if you hit the wall when you are trying to achieve something, you reach a situation where you cannot make any more progress.

We've just about hit the wall in terms of what we can do to balance the budget.

The enquiry hit a brick wall of banking security.


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