beat one's brains (out), to

A more colloquial version of cudgel one’s brains or rack one’s brain, meaning, like them, to strain to remember something or solve a difficult problem. It dates from the sixteenth century, when Christopher Marlowe wrote, “Guise beats his brains to catch us in his trap” (The Massacre of Paris, 1593, 1.1).

词组	beat one's brains (out), to
释义	beat one's brains (out), to beat one's brains (out), to A more colloquial version of cudgel one’s brains or rack one’s brain, meaning, like them, to strain to remember something or solve a difficult problem. It dates from the sixteenth century, when Christopher Marlowe wrote, “Guise beats his brains to catch us in his trap” (The Massacre of Paris, 1593, 1.1). See also: beat, brain The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: be remembered as (something) be remembered as/for something at (one's) doorstep at doorstep at expense at somebody's expense at someone's expense at (one's) expense be in (one's) good graces be in somebody's good graces
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