(UK, informal, rare) A condition of the housing market in which very few houses are bought and sold.
(UK, informal, rare) A condition of the housing market in which very few houses are bought and sold.
I've certainly heard people complain of feeling "credit crunched", although I can't really imagine anyone using the term brickor mortis with a straight face.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK) Buildings, especially domestic housing.
(business) Buildings and property for the conduct of business, particularly in the sale of retail goods to the general public. (Used to contrast an Internet-based sales operation that lacks customer-oriented store fronts and a "traditional" one for which most capital investment might be in the building infrastructure.).
(slang) A voluptuous woman with a large rotund buttocks and bust.
(UK, dialect, archaic) An animal, such as a sheep, that has died of disease or privation.
(archaic, UK, thieves) A pretty girl.