To commit a petty crime in order to easily return to jail. This practice is commonly done in order to take advantage of the benefits of free housing, meals, etc. provided while being incarcerated.
Yo, b, I had to throw a brick so I could take another year to get my shit together in the clink.
When someone, some thing, or some place offends you enough or is so poor by comparison to another such person, thing or place that the most logical reciprocation, sometimes ironically, is to smash the door with a blunt, heavy, nearby projectile such as a mason's brick, creating an inconvenience (and, if the door was glass, a safety hazard) such that the interested parties are coerced into correcting said problem.
My Aunt's eggs and grits are so good that it makes you want to drive byIHOP and throw a brick at the door.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)