Drop A Brick Meaning
(US, idiomatic) Alternative form of drop a bombshell
Example: Used other than as an idiom: see drop,‎ brick.
1978, Ambroise Vollard, Violet M. MacDonald (translator), Recollections of a Picture Dealer, 2003, Dover Publications, page 28,
It was on one of those Tuesdays that I dropped a brick, the memory of which still haunts me after more than forty years. A very loquacious lady, whom I had never seen before, appeared to be talking through her nose. “Don't you think,†I said to one of my neighbours, by way of starting conversation, “that lady would be well advised to sound her trumpet less often?â€
“You bet I do! I've not been able to get used to it these thirty years.â€
And as I stared at him, horror-struck:
“Yes. I'm her husband.â€
1998, Harry Brewster, A Cosmopolite's Journey: Episodes from a Life, page 216,
I remember dropping a brick when I first met her. As she at once started calling me 'Harry' in the way Americans are apt to do, the surname becoming immediately superfluous. I ventured to ask her what her Christian name was.
‘I'm not a Christian, Harry.’
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