“Bang one's head against a brick wall”in other languages
Keep trying something that will never work.
English
Croatian
Spanish
Same idea, different pictures
All three use the head as a battering ram against something that won't move. English and Spanish bang it, darse de cabezadas; the wall stays put and the head takes the damage.
Croatian glavom kroz zid, head through the wall, leans toward stubbornness: it's said of someone determined to force the impossible.
More sayings in other languages
- Bark up the wrong tree
- Be bone idle
- Be in the know
- Be scared stiff
- Be taken for a ride
- Beat around the bush
- Bend over backwards
- Bite the bullet
- Bite the dust