All hit the bricks synonyms

verb hit the bricks

• set forth — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
• start out — begin career
• hold out — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• stick out — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
• tie up — that with which anything is tied.
• sit down — done or accomplished while sitting down: sit-down meetings between the two party leaders.
• sit in — any organized protest in which a group of people peacefully occupy and refuse to leave a premises: Sixty students staged a sit-in outside the dean's office.
• slow down — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.