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What does "I'll kill a brick" mean?
It's the title of a great sounding blues tune on the Stax label by "Hot Sauce." The whole title is "I'll Kill A Brick (About My Man)." I've never heard the expression before, but someone must know what it means.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
It's an hyperbole, or an exaggerated (illusionary) metaphor, which appears in the following phrase:
"I'll kill a brick,
Shoot a stick,
Or Stab a raindrop."
Notice that a brick is nonliving, so can't be killed, except supernaturally; bullets or balls are ordinarily shot, while it is more difficult to imagine shooting a stick; and although you can pierce a raindrop, it is hard to picturing harming one.
A similar phrase appears in Chapter One of "White Thunder Rope a Dope" by Albert Thomas Byrd, a 2003 e-Book at http://www.mittymax.com/Archive/0098-WhiteThunderR...
"I’m so tough I’ll kill a brick, cripple a stick and drown a drop of water.”
Such an hyperbole is used to emphasize that the speaker is so strong that he can perform magical acts of power.
Source(s): http://www.mittymax.com/Archive/0098-WhiteThunderR... http://discosgruuv.blogspot.com/2006/07/after-part...