Meaning of BRICK AND MORTAR - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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So if you look at the wall behind me this right here is a brick and this stuff in the
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middle between the bricks is called mortar.
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So we have bricks and we have mortar but we also use this phrase to describe something
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else.
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We have what we call brick and mortar businesses.
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A brick and mortar business is a business that has an actual building, as opposed to
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online businesses.
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So every since we started to have online businesses we needed a way to distinguish between businesses
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that have online stores and businesses that have stores in the real world.
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So we decided to say that stores that exist in the real world we would call brick and
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mortar stores.
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So if you drive to my local town there are a lot of brick and mortar stores.
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If you go online you can find stores like Amazon.
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So if you look at these,
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they're bricks and they were put here by a person that we call a bricklayer.
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A bricklayer is a person who lays bricks.
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So they mix up a whole bunch of mortar and they get a whole bunch of bricks and they
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work at laying bricks all nicely in a row.
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So the person who puts bricks up to form a wall is called a bricklayer.
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