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Old November 09, 2010, 02:14 PM
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Either will mean "stupid".

"What, Am I talking to a brick?"

Well, it must be because "your a brick" is totally different from "you're a brick"
I have heard "it's like talking to a brick", but I have never heard anyone called directly "you're a brick". I know that "your" and "you're" are different....
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Old November 09, 2010, 04:07 PM
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I have heard "it's like talking to a brick", but I have never heard anyone called directly "you're a brick". I know that "your" and "you're" are different....
Then, it must be my Nevada-English.
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Old November 27, 2010, 06:50 PM
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Yup, but "to be stupid like a brick" does exist and it is used around... or if not around, at least, parallelepiped-ly,

In Spain there is also the usage of "tocho", particularly for books,
DRAE,
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m. coloq. Número considerable de papeles escritos. Un tocho de apuntes de clase.4. m. Libro de muchas páginas. Ha publicado un tocho de mil páginas.

Tocho is actually a 'brick' or an 'iron ingot'... (the sense of "tocho = brick" it is probably a Catalonia usage, as it is not in DRAE nor Moliner.)

La novela es un tocho, o más pesada que un ladrillo... un plomazo que no veas...
(These are common expressions in Spanish.)
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