There is not a greater difference in quality between a brick-bat and a gas than there is between oxygen and ether.

It was a case of brickbat culture, pure and simple.

I've no doubt that the comments will be full of brickbats.

I look forward to more profitable brickbats from his direction.

You had 13 years to do this, and all that teachers got was a succession of brickbats.

He said it was "early in this critical session of Congress" for such brickbats.

Last week the campaign was largely given over to brickbats about a Labor political broadcast.

I know how hard it is to go through the brickbats you get when you're very successful."

You'll agree, any one of them has what it takes to turn those brickbats into bulldozers!

Carrying a child was the next best thing to getting hit with a brickbat for ensuring sound sleep.

At home, he won brickbats for his mismanagement of Argentina's economy.

The Sopranos final episode was in no way a brickbat.

The word activist is a verbal brickbat, without a fixed meaning.

Men climbed onto roofs so they could throw brickbats down on the police.

Over the years that preoccupation has earned him many brickbats, but not from his boss.

Swathes opened up in the crowds on either side as they saw the brickbats coming.

Critical brickbats notwithstanding, the recording sold more than a million copies.

"I don't think we serve the field by throwing brickbats," he said.

Flung the book he hadn't been reading, only pretending to, far from him like a brickbat.

We are more used to receiving brickbats rather than bouquets so thanks for the encouragement.

So far she has been spared the brickbats.

And yes, "Focus" is about as subtle as a brickbat.

A little bland; more fun years ago when people would make political statements, send brickbats at their enemies, and so on.

That treatment is very different from the critical brickbats he has frequently received in New York.

If most rappers prefer boasts to brickbats - well, you can see (and hear) why.

An inspector's skull was fractured with a brickbat in Londonderry.