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• make bricks without straw — 1. To try to do a piece of work without the materials necessary for it 2. To make something that will not last • • • Main Entry: ↑brick * * * make bricks without ˈstraw idiom (BrE) to try to work without the necessary material, money, information …   Useful english dictionary

• make bricks without straw — {v. phr.} To make something without the wherewithal; do something the hard way; do a job under hard conditions. * /John could not go to a library, and writing the report was a job of making bricks without straw./ * /It was making bricks without… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• make bricks without straw — {v. phr.} To make something without the wherewithal; do something the hard way; do a job under hard conditions. * /John could not go to a library, and writing the report was a job of making bricks without straw./ * /It was making bricks without… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• make\ bricks\ without\ straw — v. phr. To make something without the wherewithal; do something the hard way; do a job under hard conditions. John could not go to a library, and writing the report was a job of making bricks without straw. It was making bricks without straw to… …   Словарь американских идиом

• make bricks without straw — do something in spite of the lack of necessary materials, make something out of nothing …   English contemporary dictionary

• you cannot make bricks without straw — Nothing can be made or performed without the necessary materials. Frequently used as a metaphorical phrase, to make bricks without straw. A (misapplied) allusion to EXODUS V. 7 (AV) Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as… …   Proverbs new dictionary

• You can't make bricks without straw. — something that you say which means you cannot do something correctly without the necessary materials. I need an electric drill to put these shelves up. You can t make bricks without straw …   New idioms dictionary

• you can't make bricks without straw — ► you can t make bricks without straw proverb nothing can be made or accomplished without adequate material or information. Main Entry: ↑brick …   English terms dictionary

• make — make1 makable, adj. /mayk/, v., made, making, n. v.t. 1. to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art. 2. to produce; cause to exist or happen; bring… …   Universalium

• make — see make hay while the sun shines as you make your bed, so you must lie upon it you cannot make bricks without straw clothes make the man make haste slowly if you don’t make mistakes you don’t make anything …   Proverbs new dictionary

• Bricks without straw — is a phrase which refers to a task which must be done without appropriate resources.OriginIn Exodus 5 (Parshat Shemot in the Torah), Moses and Aaron meet with Pharaoh and deliver God s message, Let my people go . Pharaoh not only refuses but… …   Wikipedia