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“Bang one's head against a brick wall”in other languages

Keep trying something that will never work.

  • English
  • Croatian
  • Spanish
Behind the words

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.

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