brick wall vs noddle

brick wall

verb
  • To halt or limit abruptly. 

  • To build a brick wall around. 

  • To be uncooperative and unresponsive. 

  • To filter using a brick wall filter. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • An obstacle. 

noddle

verb
  • To nod repeatedly. 

noun
  • The head; the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs. 

  • The head as the seat of mental capacity or intellect. 

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