brain

Related to brain: Braun

brain (someone)

To strike or assault someone violently and severely, typically on the head. He warned me that he was going to brain me if I didn't stop insulting him. The lump on my head is from when a box fell off a shelf and brained me yesterday.
See also: brain
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

brain someone

Fig. to strike a person hard on the skull as if to knock out the person's brains. (Often said as a vain threat.) I thought he was going to brain me, but he only hit me on the shoulder. If you don't do it, I'll brain you.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

brain

1. n. a good student; a very intelligent person. (see also brains.) I’m no brain, but I get good grades.
2. tv. to hit someone (in the head). I ought to brain you for that!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • a light bulb goes off in (one's) brain
  • a light bulb goes on in (one's) brain
  • a mind like a sieve
  • ain't got the brains God gave a squirrel
  • all brawn and no brain
  • an idle brain is the devil's workshop
  • baby brain
  • bash (someone's) brains in
  • BB brain
  • be all brawn and no brain(s)
  • be brain dead
  • be out of (one's) brain
  • be the brains behind (something)
  • beat (one's) brains out
  • beat (someone's) brains in
  • beat brains
  • beat brains out
  • beat one’s brains out
  • beat one’s brains out to do something
  • beat one's brains (out), to
  • beat one's brains out
  • beat someone’s brains out
  • beat your brains out
  • beetlebrain
  • bird of (one's) own brain
  • bird-brain
  • blow (one's) brains out
  • blow brains out
  • blow one's brains out
  • blow someone’s brains out
  • blow your/somebody's brains out
  • bored out of (one's) brains
  • brack-brain
  • brain
  • brain (someone)
  • brain box
  • brain bucket
  • brain candy
  • brain cramp
  • brain dead
  • brain drain
  • brain dump
  • brain is better than brawn
  • brain someone
  • brain surgeon
  • brain surgery
  • brain trust
  • brain-burned
  • brainchild
  • brain-dead
  • brain-drain
  • brain-fried
  • brains
  • brains and brawn
  • brains and/versus brawn
  • brains out
  • brains versus brawn
  • brainstorm
  • brain-teaser
  • brain-twister
  • crackbrain
  • cudgel (one's) brains
  • cudgel one's brains, to
  • cudgel your brain
  • feather brain
  • get (one's) brain in gear
  • get brain
  • get your brain into gear
  • have (one's) brain on a leash
  • have (someone or something) on the brain
  • have a light bulb go off in (one's) brain
  • have a light bulb go on in (one's) brain
  • have a moonflaw in the brain
  • have brain on a leash
  • have one’s brain on a leash
  • have somebody/something on the brain
  • have something on the brain
  • idle brain is the devil's workshop
  • lamebrain
  • lame-brain
  • more with brains than with brawn
  • not have two (something) to rub together
  • not have two brain cells to rub together
  • not have two brain cells, pennies, etc. to rub together
  • on one's mind
  • on the brain
  • on the/(one's) brain
  • out of (one's) brain
  • pick (one's) brain(s)
  • pick brain
  • pick somebody's brains
  • pick someone's brain
  • pick someone's brain, to
  • pick someone's brains
  • pregnancy brain
  • rack (one's) brain(s)
  • rack brain
  • rack brains
  • rack one's brain
  • rack one's brain, to
  • rack your brains
  • rattlebrain
  • scatterbrain
  • shit for brains
  • the brain drain
  • the brains behind (something)
  • the brains behind something
  • the brains of the/this/that operation
  • the brains of the/this/that outfit
  • wrack (one's) brain(s)
  • wrack brains
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