brick it
English edit
Etymology edit
Related to shit a brick.
Pronunciation edit
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Verb edit
brick it (third-person singular simple present bricks it, present participle bricking it, simple past and past participle bricked it)
- (slang, vulgar) To be scared; to be terrified.
- The first time I performed in public I was bricking it.
- 2020, Louise Curtis with Sarah Johnson, A Nurseʼs Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis, Pan Books, page 70:
- I always replied with a casual and breezy ‘Iʼll be fine,’ but deep down I was bricking it.
- 2022 July 11, Harry Taylor, quoting Harry Shimmin, “British tourists survive avalanche in Tian Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan”, in The Guardian[1]:
- I felt in control, but regardless, when the snow started coming over and it got dark/harder to breathe, I was bricking it and I thought I might die.
Further reading edit
- Jonathon Green (2024) “brick it v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang