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beat one's brains out
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Idioms and Phrases
Make a great mental effort to understand, solve, or remember something, as in Joe's beating his brains out to finish this puzzle . Christopher Marlowe used this hyperbolic idiom in The Massacre of Paris (1593): 鈥淕uise beats his brains to catch us in his trap.鈥 Also see rack one's brains .Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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