> From: "Brian Jones" <tr4zest@gmail.com>
>
> (Mark: Brick = a reliable, dependable, popular associate in UK slang,
> at
> least where I grew up in Liverpool.)
Not just Liverpool. In many English books I have read, I have seen one
character tell another in times of stress: "You've been a brick. An absolute
brick."
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