Sentences with phrase «hard as a brick»

That may sound as cold and hard as the bricks it was built with, but that's where you should begin.

I have never been able to make bread in my life — either gooey or hard as a brick!!

I followed directions but the watermelon pickles were hard as bricks.

After two hours of chilling, the truffle dough was hard as brick and it was hard to for them to little balls.

It was as hard as a brick!

Anybody who has ever baked a pan of brownies from scratch knows that they can be tricky... under cook them and they are too gooey, over cook them and they are dry and crumbly and the edges are hard as bricks... it takes practice to get them just right.

Then they start to burn and turn hard as bricks and get very very large.

With breasts as hard as a brick, a well - supporting bra is your best friend.

Moisture of any kind, such as from humidity, will very rapidly make it as hard as a brick.

Just as the other reviews state, these little bites came in hard as a brick and the more times the bag was opened the worse they got.

Despite the close proximity of so many platforming titles making use of the same mechanic, Gravity Guy still manages to strike out in its own direction and for those who like their games as hard as a brick - wall, then this is for you.

You don't want it to thaw, but it will get hard as a brick and you will think you can do nothing with it.

Not exact matches

That may be hard to pull off when its chardonnay and merlot sit on shelves with dozens of other brands in bricks - and - mortar stores in Beijing and Shanghai, as there's no way for China's wine aficionados to understand the wine or the company's history.

«We seem to be compelled to shape facts and data, as we know them,» says Koestler, «into hard bricks, stick them together with the slime of our theories and beliefs.

«We seem to be compelled,» wrote Koestler, «to shape facts and data, as we know them, into hard bricks, and stick them together with the slime of our theories and beliefs.

As ocean acidification proceeds, carbonate becomes less and less abundant, so at one point the carbonate concentration in the water is limiting the precipitation of calcium carbonate and organisms have a harder time to make their shell and skeleton since one of the bricks needed to make the wall is becoming less and less abundant.

But after drooling over the Houlihans for months, trying them on three times in as many stores, and lacking my usual toddler - induced aversion to brick & mortar shopping, this was not a hard sell for the uber - friendly and helpful shop attendant.

20,054 miles It's not hard to like the 1 - series - great chassis, solid as a brick with more than 20,000 miles on the clock, and a straight six strong enough to make a big car fast, much less this smallest of the BMWs.

As we poke around, it's not hard to imagine the sound of a twin - cam motor reverberating among the red brick walls.

As brick - and - mortar bookstores struggle to carve out their own unique niches in a market overrun by discounted online book buying opportunities, the UK - based Booksellers Association is hard at work helping their shop owners keep up.

The best hybrid publishers are those that conduct some level of gatekeeping or curation (i.e., not everyone who knocks on the door is accepted as an author), offer some value that authors would have a hard time securing on their own (such as brick - and - mortar distribution), and pay better royalties than a traditional publishing deal.

The typical brick and mortar institution, such as a bank or credit union, is going to be a hard draw for car financing if you have bad credit.

It's not hard to imagine a world where the Box Sale (and by extension, Gamestop's brick and mortar stores) are a curious anachronism as soon as 5 years from now.

In World 8 - 3 of Super Mario Bros. and a few levels in The Lost Levels, the castle walls use the same brick styling as Brick Blocks, which can make them harder to see.

After a floor or two, the enemy number becomes many, and you will likely hit a brick wall as you learn the game the hard way.

It is hard not to see it as a refuge, and these bricks as temporal and geographical migrants — as resonant with Italy's contemporary immigration crisis as its post-war emigration to work in British brick factories.

When seen from across the room, the canvas reveals a pair of those hard - edged panels as bookends to stacked bricks of roughened brushwork that creates its own shadows.

At times, Baer's attention to detail takes on a sense of rebellious humor and cartoonlike simplicity, such as in Looking Back (2009) with its smears of paint blotting out hard brick walls, or in Bay View (2009), her series of dripping, squirting breasts, jutting out from actual seams that are hand sewn into blue - stained canvases.

As a result, it's possible today to hire an otherwise excellent masonry contractor to repoint your vintage home, only to discover later that your brick or stone is failing because he filled your walls with a standard off - the - shelf mortar that was harder and more moisture - impermeable than the historic original.

However, economists like Krugman can't tell the difference between a true offset (which is very hard to create, as in graphite bricks) and a bogus claim by some ambitious trader.

Dysfunctional usages make a contract harder to work with and risk causing confusion, just as defective bricks, steel, and lumber threaten the integrity of a building.

Of course «best» is subjective because it's hard to quantify the value of having a local agent that has a brick and mortar office in your neighborhood and one that you may have a close personal relationship with but we here we will compare important information such as; financial ratings, prices and length of time in business.

«As more agents are working offsite, it's getting harder to draw them inside brick and mortar buildings because they don't think they need it,» said Leigh Brown, broker / owner of RE / MAX Executive Realty in Charlotte, N.C. «As brokers, it's our job to provide meaningful education,» she continued.

To encourage more relaxation, architects are steering away from hard furnishings and materials such as metal, brick and ceramic tile.

Country - style flooring should be simple and unobtrusive, in neutral materials such as brick, terracotta, stone, and plain or painted wood, for a hard surface that's easy to care for.

So I would ask your brick mason what your choices are, before the mortar dries hard as a rock.

It was hard to tell the difference between the grout and the bricks in the before photo on the left, but now there's more definition between the two, as shown on the right.

As other readers pointed out though, brick is hard on anything glass that gets dropped, and if you do alot of cooking or standing, brick is like cement and hard on your back / feet / joints.

The brick looks lovely, but on a practical note is probably a pain to clean as the surface is a bit rough, and underfoot its will be a bit on the hard and cold side.

As they got older, my daughters learned real quick how hard and rough a brick floor is when you get tackled by your football lovin» cousin.