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shithouse

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built like a brick outhouse and built like a brick shithouse
Fig. well-built-either strong or full-sized. (Built more strongly than is typical. The second form is potentially offensive. Use only with discretion.) Look at that guy's muscles—he's built like a brick shithouse. This garage is built like a brick outhouse. It'll last for years.
See also: brick, built, like

be built like a brick shithouse  (British & Australian very informal!)
if someone is built like a brick shithouse, they are very strong and very big I wasn't going to argue with him - he was built like a brick shithouse.
See also: brick, built, like


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Trampolining, fire-eating, central heating, shithouse.
He ruthlessly crushed the life out of independence-seeking Chechnya, thrilling Muslim-hating Russians by vowing to "kill the Chechen bandits in their shithouses.
I will stare through several windows then; the garage's one in each long wall, the kitchen's in the main house's further-off sunken yard, six steps tipping me down into the abominable shithouse I share with the maids that drift through the days like shadows or leaves the wind blows.
 
 
 
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