Meanings
present singular third person hits a wall · participle present hitting a wall
- idiomaticinformalTo come up against an insurmountable problem; to be brought to a halt.
“One day we just hit a wall,” said Dr. Steven Furr, who practices family medicine in rural Jackson, Ala., where he has even made house calls to give patients their Covid shots. “We had vaccinated everybody who wanted to be vaccinated and there was nobody left.”
2021 October 11, Jan Hoffman, quoting Steven Furr, “Boosters Are Complicating Efforts to Persuade the Unvaccinated to Get Shots”, in The New York Times, →ISSNSynonyms: hit a brick wall
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo come up against an insurmountable problem; to be brought to a halt.
Translations
Italian essere ad un punto morto
- essere ad un punto mortoTranslations
Spanish topar contra una pared, toparse contra un muro
- topar contra una paredTranslations
- toparse contra un muroTranslations
Cite this entry
hit a wall. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hit%20a%20wall
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