gold brick
Britishnoun
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something with only a superficial appearance of value
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slang an idler or shirker
Example Sentences
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The title of this perfectly well-appointed production is apt: “Big Gold Brick” looks all right but it truly just sits there.
From New York Times
Samuel, a nice failed writer and slob, turns his life around one day by stepping in front of a car in “Big Gold Brick.”
From New York Times
This year, the actress has a stacked schedule of movies, including the lead role in the offbeat horror-thriller “Till Death,” out July 2; the crime thriller “Midnight in the Switchgrass,” which also stars her now-boyfriend, actor and musician Machine Gun Kelly, a few weeks later; and Brian Petsos’ forthcoming directorial debut “Big Gold Brick.”
From Washington Post
But even as DelGaudio lays himself bare in his “Amoralman” memoir or in the personal histories featured in “Itself,” which ran on stage in L.A. and off-Broadway for 560 performances, describing his one-man show can be as elusive as the secret to making a gold brick disappear.
From Los Angeles Times
Our second Gilded Age, with its golden pathways across the ether, is a gold brick when it comes to crumbling roads, decaying bridges, rackety public transit, corroding water pipes and collapsing sewers.
From Washington Post
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