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what is { Bang your head against a brick wall } ?
"I've been banging my head against a brick wall trying to explain the
internet to my grandmother."
8 de jul. de 2010 22:29
Respuestas · 3
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The efforts that you made to explain the Internet to your grandmother were in vain. They were fruitless. This is the meaning of 'beat' or 'bang' your head against a brick wall' (= to keep trying to do or achieve something that will never be successful).
8 de julio de 2010
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Hey Safaa!!!
OK, this expression means: To waste time & efforts trying to do something impossible to be done.
Let's put it in that line You wrote:
"I've been wasting my time, wasting efforts trying to explain the internet to my grandmother, because She will NEVER understand it."
^__^
8 de julio de 2010
That is just a figure of speech...
It does not necessary mean the person is banging their head on the wall. What she is saying is that she is so confused, that she feels like banging her hand on the wall, because her grandma does not understand the internet.
9 de julio de 2010
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