Idiom
hit a wall
Meaning
To come up against an insurmountable problem.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I hit a wall while trying to finish my homework.”
“After working on the project for six hours, I hit a wall and could not think of any new ideas.”
“The researchers hit a wall when their data failed to support the hypothesis, forcing them to reconsider their entire methodology.”
Examples
simple
“I hit a wall while trying to finish my homework.”
contextual
“After working on the project for six hours, I hit a wall and could not think of any new ideas.”
complex
“The researchers hit a wall when their data failed to support the hypothesis, forcing them to reconsider their entire methodology.”
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