just another brick in the wall
Just one more facet or aspect of some larger system, process, issue, etc. The latest policy is just another brick in the wall of the dictator's plan of disenfranchising the population at large. The show has been in a decline for the last few years, and the lead writer's firing is just another brick in the wall.
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