Brewer's: Make Bricks without Straw

(To). To attempt to do something without having the necessary material supplied. The allusion is to the Israelites in Egypt, who were commanded by their taskmasters so to do. (Exodus v. 7.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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