| 单词 | beat one's brains out |
| 释义 | beat one's brains outMake 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): “Guise beats his brains to catch us in his trap.” Also see rack one's brains. Words nearby beat one's brains outbeat man, beatnik, beatniks, beat off, Beaton, beat one's brains out, beat one's head against the wall, beat out, beat poets, Beatrice, Beatrix The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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