brick wall vs thick

brick wall

noun
  • An obstacle. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brick, wall. A wall made of bricks. 

  • Someone who is silent or unresponsive. 

  • A type of anti-aliasing filter with a steep cutoff. 

verb
  • To halt or limit abruptly. 

  • To build a brick wall around. 

  • To be uncooperative and unresponsive. 

  • To filter using a brick wall filter. 

thick

noun
  • A thicket. 

  • A stupid person; a fool. 

  • The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something. 

adj
  • Heavy in build; thickset. 

  • Densely crowded or packed. 

  • Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension. 

  • Having a viscous consistency. 

  • Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated. 

  • Detailed and expansive; substantive. 

  • Stupid. 

  • Friendly or intimate. 

  • Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips. 

  • Impenetrable to sight. 

  • Deep, intense, or profound. 

  • Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension. 

  • Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin. 

  • Abounding in number. 

adv
  • Frequently or numerously. 

  • In a thick manner. 

How often have the words brick wall and thick occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )