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hit the bricks
verb
a) To travel about, especially on foot.

[T]housands of brewers, waiters and waitresses, bartenders, cooks, checkers, cashiers, dishwashers, hotel maids and bellmen, too, would be forced to hit the bricks in search of other work.

b) To leave or depart; to get out.

[H]undreds of joggers and walkers from the condos hit the bricks of the Coal Harbor Seawalk starting at 6 a.m. for their morning constitution around Stanley Park.

Syn: perambulate, pound the pavement, ramble, hit the road, hit the trail, picket, protest, strike

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