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hit a wall |
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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Chris Anderson and Nick Gillespie seemed to hit a wall when it came to contemplating the impact of the Long Tail on politics ("Welcome to Niche Nation," November). ``I was doing well, but then I felt like I hit a wall. No matter how energized, invigorated, or otherwise actively motivated you are in your job, inevitably you're going to get to a point where things just seem as though you've hit a wall of marshmallow fluff: no, you've not slammed into something that knocks the fillings out of your teeth, you're just at a place where all movement takes more effort and the results are less than they would ordinarily be. |
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