English Dictionary

hit the bricks

verb

(idiomatic) To travel about, especially on foot. / (idiomatic) To leave or depart; to get out.

I need to hit the bricks and explore the city.

意味（1）

(idiomatic) To travel about, especially on foot.

[T]housands of brewers, waiters and waitresses, bartenders, cooks, checkers, cashiers, dishwashers, hotel maids and bellmen, too, would be forced to hit the bricks in search of other work.

意味（2）

(idiomatic) To leave or depart; to get out.

Alas, Hancock did not have his receipt, so the shop owner told him to hit the bricks.

意味（3）

(idiomatic) To participate in a workplace strike or other job action; to participate in a public protest, especially one involving picketing.

When Harry Bridges told his boys to hit the bricks, Charley was always up front in the longshoremen's wall of flesh. His picketing record in the bloody dockside strife of 1934 and in the all-out strike of 1937 was perfect.