Meaning of hit the bricks | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To travel about, especially on foot.
   idiomatic
2. To leave or depart; to get out.
   idiomatic
3. To participate in a workplace strike or other job action; to participate in a public protest, especially one involving picketing.
   idiomatic

Examples

“[T]housands of brewers, waiters and waitresses, bartenders, cooks, checkers, cashiers, dishwashers, hotel maids and bellmen, too, would be forced to hit the bricks in search of other work.”

“[H]undreds of joggers and walkers from the condos hit the bricks of the Coal Harbor Seawalk starting at 6 a.m. for their morning constitution around Stanley Park.”

“Alas, Hancock did not have his receipt, so the shop owner told him to hit the bricks.”

“On Friday and Saturday nights, the old-timers who usually populate the enormous room hit the bricks as an army of young people storm the hall to play "Cosmic Bingo."”

“When Harry Bridges told his boys to hit the bricks, Charley was always up front in the longshoremen's wall of flesh. His picketing record in the bloody dockside strife of 1934 and in the all-out strike of 1937 was perfect.”

“Queens bus driver Mousie Garcia, 30, said she doesn't want a strike but will hit the bricks if the MTA doesn't come through with no-strings-attached raises.”

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