My grandmother beats her brains out every evening trying to do the crossword puzzle in the newspaper.
English Idioms & idiomatic expressions. 2014.
beat one's brains out — phrasal or beat one s brains : to cudgel one s brain : try continually and energetically to think out something difficult * * * beat one s brains or beat one s brains out To puzzle about something • • • Main Entry: ↑beat … Useful english dictionary
brain — brainlike, adj. /brayn/, n. 1. Anat., Zool. the part of the central nervous system enclosed in the cranium of humans and other vertebrates, consisting of a soft, convoluted mass of gray and white matter and serving to control and coordinate the… … Universalium
brain — See: BEAT ONE S BRAINS OUT, BLOW ONE S BRAINS OUT, ON THE BRAIN, RACK ONE S BRAIN, GET ONE S BRAINS FRIED … Dictionary of American idioms
brain — See: BEAT ONE S BRAINS OUT, BLOW ONE S BRAINS OUT, ON THE BRAIN, RACK ONE S BRAIN, GET ONE S BRAINS FRIED … Dictionary of American idioms
brain — See: beat one s brains out, blow one s brains out, on the brain, rack one s brain, get one s brains fried … Словарь американских идиом
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! — Dr. Kawashima s Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain? Developer(s) Nintendo Software Development D … Wikipedia
Out of Line Music — Out of Line Music немецкий звукозаписывающий лейбл, который выпускает различные музыкальные стили, включая электро, EBM, синти поп. Содержание 1 Группы 2 Дискография … Википедия
brain — or brains [brān] n. [ME < OE brægen < IE base * mregh m(n)o , skull, brain > Gr bregma, forehead] 1. [sometimes pl.] the mass of nerve tissue in the cranium of vertebrate animals, an enlarged extension of the spinal cord: it is the main… … English World dictionary
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
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
