- beat your brains out
- Beat your brains outIf you beat your brains out, you think hard about something but cannot solve, understand or remember it.
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beat your brains out
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beat your brains out — beat (your) brains out to spend a lot of time worrying about a problem and thinking about how to deal with it. I ve been beating my brains out trying to think of a way of getting the money to her in time. (often + doing something) … New idioms dictionary
beat your brains out — beat your ˈbrains out idiom (informal, especially NAmE) to think very hard about sth for a long time • I ve been beating my brains out all weekend to get this script written. Main entry: ↑beatidiom … Useful english dictionary
beat brains out — beat (your) brains out to spend a lot of time worrying about a problem and thinking about how to deal with it. I ve been beating my brains out trying to think of a way of getting the money to her in time. (often + doing something) … New idioms dictionary
beat someone’s brains out — 1. tv. to beat someone severely. □ She threatened to beat my brains out. □ Those thugs nearly beat his brains out. 2. tv. to drive oneself hard (to accomplish something). □ I beat my brains out all day to clean this house, and you come in and… … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
beat — beat1 W2S2 [bi:t] v past tense beat past participle beaten [ˈbi:tn] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(competition/election)¦ 2¦(hit)¦ 3¦(hit against)¦ 4¦(do better)¦ 5¦(be better)¦ 6¦(food)¦ 7¦(control/deal with)¦ … Dictionary of contemporary English
beat — 1 verb /bi:t/ past tense beat past participle beaten / bi:tn/ 1 DEFEAT (T) a) to get the most points, votes etc in a game, race, or competition: Brazil were beaten in the final 2 1. | I could always beat my brother at chess. | beat sb hollow… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
beat — [[t]bi͟ːt[/t]] ♦ beats, beating, beaten (The form beat is used in the present tense and is the past tense.) 1) VERB If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard. [V n] My wife tried to stop them and they beat her... [V n to n] They… … English dictionary
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brain — 1 /breIn/ noun 1 ORGAN (C) the organ inside your head that controls how you think, feel, and move: Messages from the brain are carried by the central nervous system. 2 INTELLIGENCE (U) also brains plural the ability to think clearly and learn… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
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