brickies

Anywhere else, skilled workers could be imported from abroad – Polish plasterers in London, Indian brickies in Dubai.

Gaza builders lead economic recovery – with some help from the black market 2012

Then there were the rapists and paedophiles of every hue—brickies, teachers, solicitors, IT specialists, and bankers, as well as clergymen—and the cases he was reading were only the ones where actual bodily harm had been inflicted during the commission of the crimes.

The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

So why does the fashion industry expect its architects to be brickies?

Valuing design graduates and academics Jonathan 2008

So why does the fashion industry expect its architects to be brickies?

Archive 2008-07-01 Jonathan 2008

Industry thinks architects should be brickies first, and so do we.

Valuing design graduates and academics Jonathan 2008

Leaping onto the bonnet of a car and spinning around a lamppost, Gene Kelly-esque tip-taps through the cigarette butts and dog dirts; those first moments are the liberating release of this long dormant urge that's been bubbling under the surface of the louts and the brickies, housewives and posers, and desk-bound office drones who daydreamed away the hours and could finally befree.

Ballspenden 2010

Industry thinks architects should be brickies first, and so do we.

Archive 2008-07-01 Jonathan 2008

A leading building firm is banning its brickies from wolf-whistling at women, saying the "outdated" tradition had become a distraction for young househunters.

Archive 2008-04-01 Moondreamer 2008

A leading building firm is banning its brickies from wolf-whistling at women, saying the "outdated" tradition had become a distraction for young househunters.

Politcal correctness gone mad? aliqot 2008

There are brickies from the building site doing something at my back wall.

between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day hawkwing_lb 2006