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make bricks without straw

verb

Etymology

From Exodus 5:18: "Now get to work. You will not be given any straw, yet you must produce your full quota of bricks." (NIV).

Definitions

  1. To accomplish a task without the proper materials or under unreasonable conditions

    To accomplish a task without the proper materials or under unreasonable conditions; to do the impossible.

    • The founders did more than "make bricks without straw; they dreamed of a great cathedral and laid the foundations for it.
    • The problems that we may find ourselves confronted with may be similar to a make bricks without straw condition, imposed by not only others but in large measure ourselves.

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