brick in a wall

Creomar de Souza, founder of political risk consultancy Dharma Politics, said Delgatti’s testimony “is yet another brick in a wall of problems around Bolsonaro and some of his allies.”

Who would begrudge Rivera and Smith the chance to rise above this annual farce and build something solid — a brick in a wall that has crumbled so often?

After out-dueling Murray, he had Ravens coach John Harbaugh deliver a more pointed message, one more brick in a wall of integration: not bad for a quarterback.

"You can only make the film that you can make and you're only putting one brick in a wall, and many other people will be putting theirs in as well," he goes on.

If I were to drink, that secret would be the first brick in a wall between us.