bricks and mortar

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

bricks and ˈmortar idiom
buildings, when you are thinking of them in connection with how much they cost to build or how much they are worth
•They put their money into bricks and mortar.
• (business)a new Internet company without a lot of bricks-and-mortar businesses (= businesses with buildings that customers go to)
• (NAmE also)brick-and-mortar businesses
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