What is "like a ton of bricks"

Usage examples of "like a ton of bricks".

He got himself seated on the edge, overbalanced himself, and fell inside like a ton of bricks.

I'd distracted myself with work, but once I was alone I knew that my break-up with Micah would hit me like a ton of bricks.

But you hadn't been a foreman six weeks before you came down like a ton of bricks on senior men that were here long before anybody'd ever heard of you.

She gave Arthur a pleasant smile which settled on him like a ton of bricks and then turned her attention to the ship's controls again.

The second was more chilling than revealing: If Kangmei's network of disaffected young people was any more than a nebulous and idealistic dream, if it had any form at all, any organization that posed the slightest threat to the state or to the Party, then it was only a question of time until authority in all its multi-bludgeoned wonder fell on it like a ton of bricks.

If I catch you stepping an inch out of line, I'll come down on you like a ton of bricks, and you'll be out of uniform before you know what happened.

It hit me like a ton of bricks falling from a building under construction.

She gave Arthur a pleasant smile which settled on him like a ton of bricks and then turned her attention to the ship’.