cudgel (one's) brains
cudgel (one's) brains
To try very hard to comprehend, solve, think of, or remember something. I was up all night cudgeling my brains for a way to pay off all my debts. She cudgeled her brains to remember the man's name.
See also: brain, cudgel
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
cudgel your brain (or brains)
think hard about a problem.This expression was used by Shakespeare in Hamlet: ‘Cudgel thy brains no more about it’.
See also: brain, cudgel
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
- cudgel
- cudgel your brain
- rack one's brain, to
- make (something) clear (to one)
- make clear to
- be across (something)
- be across something
- brains
- beat one's brains (out), to
- crush (something) out of (someone or something)