throw brickbats

throw brickbats
throw bricks или throw stones (at smb.)
   бpocить кaмнeм (в кoгo-л.), oбвинять, ocуждaть (кoгo-л.) The religious weeklies and monthlies, all over the country, began to throw brickbats at him. The Autocrat was imperturbable (V. W. Brooks). 'Why do you sell such stuff?' she indignantly asked the shopkeeper... 'Nobody forces you to buy it,' he replied. 'And I'm too busy to read anything. If the trade says that stuff is okay, who are you to start throwing bricks? (J. Lindsay). My dear, I have my doubts whether our duty does not stop at seeing to ourselves without throwing stones at others (J. Galsworthy)

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