hit a wall | Idiomator

Meaning: (informal,idiomatic)Tocome upagainst aninsurmountableproblem.Synonym:hit a brick wall2021October 11, Jan Hoffman, quoting Steven Furr, “Boosters Are Complicating Efforts to Persuade the Unvaccinated to Get Shots”, inThe New York Times‎[1],→ISSN:“One day we justhit a wall,” said Dr. Steven Furr, who practices family medicine in rural Jackson, Ala., where he has even made house calls to give patients their Covid shots. “We had vaccinated everybody who wanted to be vaccinated and there was nobody left.”

Examples:

EN: It's as though the rockets hit a wall.
ES: Es como si los cohetes chocaran contra un muro...
EN: I'll tell you if they'd try to do their shit here, they'd hit a wall.
ES: Pero si hubieran querido meter cizaña habrían dado con un hueso.
EN: No, I actually hit a wall.
ES: No, me choqué con una pared.
EN: Right, since he came to high school, it's like he's hit a wall.
ES: ¿Al Capitan Akagi? Sí, he oído hablar de él.
EN: Got a prefix on a Russian consortium then I hit a wall program hard.
ES: Me ha dado un prefijo ruso, entonces me he topado con un programa bloqueador.
EN: We've hit a wall. Oh.
ES: - Estamos sin ideas.
EN: Alyssa, you and I have hit a wall... 'cause I don't know how to deal with your, uh, your past, I guess.
ES: Alyssa, tu y yo nos golpeamos contra una pared porque no puedo afrontar tu, tu pasado, supongo.
ES: Tú y yo tenemos un problema. Supongo que es porque no sé cómo llevar lo de tu pasado.
EN: You hit a wall.
ES: Golpeaste una pared.
EN: Quark, listen. I'm working on a crime novel, but I've hit a wall in my writing.
ES: Estoy escribiendo una novela policíaca pero he llegado a un punto muerto.
EN: While the Doctor seems to be making progress, Commander Chakotay and I have hit a wall in our attempt to decipher the alien message.
ES: Mientras el doctor parece... estar progresando, el Comandante Chakotay y yo hemos tenido... problemas con nuestro intento de descifrar el mensaje del alienígena.
EN: Then it hit a wall.
ES: Después golpeó una pared.
EN: You gotta remember, Deyell, you hit a wall, generally the wall wins.
ES: Debes recordar, Deyell, que cuando golpeas a una pared, ella gana.
EN: If we hit a wall, I'll call her.
ES: Si nos complicamos, la llamaré.
EN: - Have we hit a wall yet?
ES: - ¿Ya nos dimos contra la pared? - No.
EN: We've hit a wall.
ES: Dimos contra un muro.

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