sticks and stone

1. 1.

   a general term for building materials

   Broaderbuilding material

   colloquialism

Questions about sticks and stone

What does sticks and stone mean?

sticks and stone means "a general term for building materials".

Is sticks and stone a common word?

sticks and stone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.