to come down on sb like a ton of bricks
- Fuente de la expresión
- Cambridge Dictionary and MacMillan Dictionary
- Estructura completa
- to come down on sb like a ton of bricks
- Variantes
- Attack; damn; savage
- Contexto
- "I’m all for the SFA defending and protecting their match officials. They are absolutely right to do so and I’d back them on that 100%. But it has got this one badly wrong.
"A manager knows when he has stepped over the line with comments. I’ve been there myself, and you wake up the next morning expecting the authorities to come down on you like a ton of bricks.
- Fuente del contexto
- Periódico The Scottish Sun
- Tipo de fuente
- newspaper
- Autor
- Scott MacArthur
- Título de la fuente
- Football
- Año
- 2020
- Web
- https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/6092896/celtic-dalglish-rangers-gerrard-lawyers-sfa/
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente