устроить взбучку(Mom will come down on you like a ton of bricks if you come home past curfew again. • When I was caught cheating on a test, the principal came down on me like a ton of bricks.)
болван("His entire formative years (…) had been spent in dipping an oar into the water, giving it a shove and hauling it out again. Only a pretty dumb brick would fritter away his golden youth doing that sort of thing (…)" (P.G. Wodehouse)ART Vancouver)