0 very strongly or forcefully:
The district auditors would be down on them like a ton of bricks if they did not.
He will have the whole body of trade unionists on him like a ton of bricks.
We drop on victimisation like a ton of bricks if we find it.
We sometimes descend like a ton of bricks.
I shall come down upon it with words like a ton of bricks.
Putting the land authority under threat will fall like a ton of bricks on the construction industry.
It brings the factory inspector down like a ton of bricks on the employer, because that is what he is there for.
However, we should come down like a ton of bricks on those who offend persistently.
