brick it

verb

brick it

verb

Etymology Related to shit a brick.

1

Slang, Vulgar To be scared; to be terrified.

The first time I performed in public I was bricking it.
I always replied with a casual and breezy ‘Iʼll be fine,’ but deep down I was bricking it.2020, Louise Curtis with Sarah Johnson, A Nurseʼs Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis, Pan Books, page 70:

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I felt in control, but regardless, when the snow started coming over and it got dark/harder to breathe, I was bricking it and I thought I might die.2022 July 11, Harry Taylor, quoting Harry Shimmin, “British tourists survive avalanche in Tian Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan”, in The Guardian:

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