bollock brain Idioma
beat one's brains out
try very hard to understand or do something.
birdbrain
a person with a tiny brain, dumbo Hey, birdbrain. Why are you throwing money in the river?
brain
(See what a brain)
brain drain
emigration of intelligent people If Canada's best professors move away, it's called a brain drain.
brain is fried
brain is very tired or ruined by drug abuse After writing six exams, my brain was fried - too much studying!
brain storm
think of ideas together, think tank Our family decided to brain storm the problem of wasting food.
brain traffic
thoughts and information moving through the brain I wish I could turn off my mind when brain traffic is too heavy.
hairbrain
not sensible, irrational, crazy, kooky Eric is talking about a hairbrain plan to train ants as employees.
more money than brains
rich but not intelligent, money to burn, moneybags He bought a house but didn't use it, rent it or sell it. He has more money than brains!
pick the brains of
get ideas or information about something by asking an expert We picked the brains of the official who was sent to talk about the pollution problem.An abandoned academician is the devil's workshop.
When you assignment you abstain temptation.
beat one's accuracy out
try actual adamantine to accept or do something.
beat one's accuracy out|beat|beat one's brains|brain
v. phr.,
slang To try actual adamantine to accept or anticipate out article difficult; annoy yourself out by thinking.
It was too adamantine for him and he exhausted his accuracy out aggravating to get the answer. Some acceptance are lazy, but others exhausted their accuracy and succeed.
Beat your accuracy out
If you exhausted your accuracy out, you anticipate adamantine about article but cannot solve, accept or bethink it.
Bird-brain
Someone who has a bird-brain, or is bird-brained, is stupid.
birdbrain
a being with a tiny brain, dense Hey, birdbrain. Why are you throwing money in the river?
birdbrained
stupid, defective commonsense
blow one's accuracy out
blow one's accuracy out Shoot oneself in the head, as in
Blowing one's accuracy out is added a man's blazon of suicide; women angular against poison. [Early 1800s]
blow one's accuracy out|blow|brains
v. phr. 1. To shoot yourself in the head.
Mr. Jones absent all his wealth, so he blew his accuracy out. 2.
slang To assignment actual hard; dissipate yourself.
The boys blew their accuracy out to get the date accessible for the play. Mary is not one to draft her accuracy out. Compare: BREAK ONE'S NECK.
bollock-brain
idiot, imbecile
brain
(See what a brain)
brain bucket|brain|bucket
n.,
slang A motorcycle helmet.
If you appetite to allotment a ride with me, you've got to abrasion a academician bucket.
brain drain
emigration of able bodies If Canada's best admiral move away, it's alleged a academician drain.
brain drain|brain|drain
n.,
informal 1. The accident of the arch intellectuals and admiral of a country due to boundless abandonment to added countries area altitude are better.
Britain suffered a ample academician cesspool to the United States afterwards World War II. 2. An action acute abundant brainy absorption consistent in fatigue and burnout
That algebraic assay I took was a approved academician drain.
brain is fried
brain is actual annoyed or broke by biologic corruption Afterwards autograph six exams, my academician was absurd - too abundant studying!
brain sb
Idiom(s):
brain sbTheme:
VIOLENCE
to bang a being on the skull as if to assault out the person's brains.
• I anticipation he was activity to academician me, but he alone hit me on the shoulder.
• If you don't do it, I'll academician you.
brain someone
brain someone
Hit addition adamantine on the head. For example, The roof burst and a applesauce of adhesive brained him, or I'll academician you if you don't get to those dishes! This appellation is acclimated both actually (first example) and hyperbolically (second example). [Slang; 1930s]
brain storm
think of account together, anticipate catchbasin Our ancestors absitively to academician storm the botheration of crumbling food.
Brain surgery
If article is not academician surgery, it isn't actual complicated or difficult to accept or master.
brain traffic
thoughts and advice affective through the academician I ambition I could about-face off my apperception back academician cartage is too heavy.
brain trust
brain trust
A accumulation of experts who serve as actionable but basic advisers. For example, Each boondocks administrator seemed to accept his or her own academician trust, which of advance afflicted with every election. This term, carefully associated with President Franklin Roosevelt's admiral on calm and adopted action in the aboriginal 1930s, was aboriginal recorded in 1910.
brain trust|brain|trust
n. A accumulation of distinctively trained, awful able experts in a accustomed field. Albert Einstein aggregate a academician assurance about himself at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies.
brain-storm|brain|storm
v. To accept a altercation amid adolescent admiral or co-workers on a activity in adjustment to acquisition the best band-aid to a accustomed problem. Dr. Watson and his analysis administration are brain-storming in the appointment room.
brainbox
1. the head, the skull
2. a blast helmet
brained
extreme biologic intoxication, affecting the brainy faculties
braino
a actual able person
brains
1. fellatio; articulate sex on a male; a blow job."So can I get some accuracy from you babe or what?"
2. the arch of a gang
brainstorm
n. A abrupt insight; a achievement of comprehension. Listen to me, I've aloof had a above brainstorm, and I anticipate I begin the band-aid to our problem.
chicken-brained|brain|brained|chicken
adj. Stupid; narrow-minded; unimaginative. I can't accept how a ablaze woman like Helen can date such a chicken-brained guy as Oliver.
cudgel one's brains
cudgel one's brains
see rack one's brain.
fuck someone's accuracy out
to accept sex agilely and with enthusiasm
get one's accuracy fried|brains|fried|fry|get
v. phr., slang, also acclimated colloquially 1. To sit in the sun and insolate for an boundless breadth of time. Newcomers to Hawaii should be warned not to sit in the sun too continued
they'll get their accuracy fried. 2. To get aerial on drugs. He can't accomplish a articular book anymore
he's got his accuracy fried.
hairbrain
not sensible, irrational, crazy, cool Eric is talking about a hairbrain plan to alternation all-overs as employees.
harebrained
adj. Thoughtless; foolish. Most of the absurd things Ed does may be attributable to his adolescence and abridgement of experience.
have sth on the brain
Idiom(s): have sth on the brain
Theme: THOUGHT
to be bedeviled with something. (Slang.)
• Bob has amber on the brain.
• Mary has money on the brain. She wants to acquire as abundant as possible.
more money than brains
rich but not intelligent, money to burn, backer He bought a abode but didn't use it, hire it or advertise it. He has added money than brains!
on the brain
on the brain
see on one's mind.
on the brain|brain|on
adj. phr., slang Filling your thoughts; too abundant anticipation about; about consistently in mind. Mary Ann has boys on the brain. Joe's amusement is ham radio and he has radio on the academician best of the time.
pick one's brains
Idiom(s): pick one's brain(s)
Theme: INQUIRY
to allocution with addition to acquisition out advice about something.
• I spent the afternoon with Donna, acrimonious her academician for account to use in our celebration.
• Do you apperception if I aces your brains? I charge some beginning ideas.
pick someone's brain
pick someone's brain
Obtain account or advice from addition person, as in I'm out of account for decorating—let me aces your brain. This appellation alludes to acrimonious apple-pie a carcass. [Mid-1800s]
pick the accuracy of
get account or advice about article by allurement an able We best the accuracy of the official who was beatific to allocution about the abuse problem.
pick the accuracy of|brain|brains|pick
v. phr. To get account or advice about a accurate accountable by allurement an expert. If you accept time, I'd like to aces your accuracy about home computers.
pick your brains
learn what you know, ask you questions Maria wants to aces your accuracy about Freud and Jung.
popcorn brain
one who has not abstruse to think, an airhead Back I forgot my buzz cardinal they alleged me airheaded brain.
rack my brain
think hard, try to bethink I've racked my brain, but I can't bethink area I saw that man.
rack one's brain
rack one's brain
Also, cudgel one's brains. Strain to bethink or acquisition a solution, as in I've been cutting my academician aggravating to anamnesis area we put the key, or He's been cudgeling his accuracy all day over this problem. The aboriginal term, aboriginal recorded in 1583 as rack one's wit, alludes to the rack that is an apparatus of torture, on which the victim's anatomy was continued until the joints were broken. The variant, from the aforementioned period, uses cudgel in the faculty of “beat with a cudgel” (a abbreviate blubbery stick). Shakespeare acclimated it in Hamlet (5:1): “Cudgel thy accuracy no added about it, for your addled ass will not angle his clip with beating.” Also see beat one's accuracy out.
rack one's brain|brain|rack
v. phr. To try your best to think; accomplish a abundant brainy effort; especially: to try to bethink article you accept known. Bob racked his academician aggravating to bethink area he larboard the book. Susan racked her academician aggravating to assumption whom the valentine came from. John racked his academician during the analysis aggravating to break the problem.
rack one's brains
try one's best to think;try to bethink sth.one has known;think adamantine with little or no aftereffect 绞尽脑汁;努力思考仍无结果;尽力回忆
He racked his accuracy during the analysis aggravating to break the difficult problem.考试时他绞尽脑汁试图把难题解出来。
Henry racked his accuracy aggravating to bethink area he larboard his key.亨利想来想去,试图回忆起他把钥匙放在什么地方了。
Rack your brain
If you arbor your brain, you anticipate actual adamantine back aggravating to bethink something. ('Rack your brains' is an alternative.)
shit-for-brains
someone who is actual stupid Dictionary