Meaning of make bricks without straw | Babel Free

Definitions

To accomplish a task without the proper materials or under unreasonable conditions; to do the impossible.

idiomatic

Examples

“The founders did more than "make⟳ bricks without straw; they dreamed of a great cathedral and laid the foundations for it.”

“To call⟳ on the owners of little farms, the tradesmen, labourers and sailors to pay⟳ their proportion of a [£20,000] tax, when perhaps there is not half that sum in circulation is something harder than being forced to make⟳ bricks without straw,” he wrote; "it is to make⟳ them without clay."”

“The problems that we may find⟳ ourselves confronted with may be similar to a make⟳ bricks without straw condition, imposed by not only others but in large measure⟳ ourselves.”

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