The Defendant then came down on me like a ton of bricks, as my eye will prove.
2000, United States Senate, The Boomers are Coming: The Challenge of Family Caregiving : Hearing Before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, Monroe, LA, October 11, 1999[2], →ISBN, page 34:
Senator Breaux: Did you see this coming on gradually, or did it hit you all of a sudden like a ton of bricks?