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1 ice-cream brick

1 floor tile

1 floor tile

1 lit. a brick thrown to prompt others to produce a jade (idiom)

2 fig. a modest suggestion intended to prompt others to come forward with better ideas

1 to get the ball rolling (abbr. for 拋磚引玉|抛砖引玉[pāo zhuān yǐn yù])

1 lit. throw out a brick and get jade thrown back (idiom)

2 fig. to attract others' interest or suggestions by putting forward one's own modest ideas to get the ball rolling

1 (slang) to throw brickbats

2 to criticize harshly

1 to do hard physical labor (as a job)

2 (fig.) to play mahjong

1 to hurt oneself by one's own doing

2 to boomerang

3 to shoot oneself in the foot (idiom)

1 lit. a brick as a door knocker (idiom); fig. a temporary expedient

2 to use sb as a stepping stone to fortune

1 (dialect) wall brick