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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