单词 | brain lock |
释义 | > as lemmasbrain lock brain lock n. colloquial (chiefly North American) a mental block; (an instance of) mental paralysis; cf. brain freeze n. 2.In quot. 1885 used as a humorous surname. ΚΠ 1885 Vassar Misc. (Vassar Coll., N.Y.) 15 82 ‘By the way, Miss Brainlock, have you ever read any Kant?’ Miss B: ‘No, but I read “Don't”, when it first came out.’] 1934 Bridge World Mar. 7/2 I wrestled with my problem to no avail... I laid it aside for fear of going stale and developing brain-locks. 1987 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 27 Oct. 1 c I didn't do it... I got a brain lock or whatever. 2007 S. Lyng & R. Matthews in K. Hannah-Moffat & P. O'Malley Gendered Risks iv. 79 The type of fear that produces a paralysis of action or what edgeworkers often refer to as ‘brain lock’. < as lemmas |
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