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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.
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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).
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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