hit the bricks

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To participate in a workplace strike or other job action; to participate in a public protest, especially one involving picketing

Queens bus driver Mousie Garcia, 30, said she doesn't want a strike but will hit the bricks if the MTA doesn't come through with no-strings-attached raises.

To leave or depart; to get out

On Friday and Saturday nights, the old-timers who usually populate the enormous room hit the bricks as an army of young people storm the hall to play Cosmic Bingo..

To travel about, especially on foot

undreds of joggers and walkers from the condos hit the bricks of the Coal Harbor Seawalk starting at 6 a.m. for their morning constitution around Stanley Park.

hit the brick
(deyim) If you hit the brick when you are trying to achieve something, you reach a situation where you cannot make any more progress
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