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Re: built like a brick [out]house

#42427 09/22/01 07:47 PM

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it simply means "well built".
I've never seen a brick [out]house, and I don't see anything that would suggest that they would necessarily be well built.

Perhaps the simile is more easily comprehensible if "well built" is rephrased as "built substantially beyond the norm".

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