brain box

brain box

Someone who is regarded as highly intelligent. Kevin is such a brain box that he memorized pi to a hundred decimal places.
See also: box, brain
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • box (one's) ears
  • box somebody's ears
  • buy the box
  • inside the box
  • the goggle-box
  • a box of birds
  • groan box
  • box out
  • fuse box
References in periodicals archive
To plan for Brain Box, set aside frequent and consistent time periods in your instructional schedule.
Friendly TV on channel 908 runs a computer game called Brain Box where viewers have to text in at 50p a time.
He also said some people invaded the compound last year and vandalised a Toyota Lexus 350 Jeep and made away with the brain box, window switch, lighting and other valuable parts removed.
Jan Sopher is the "Brain Box" behind a new exhibition giving sufferers, and those around them, the chance to express their innermost thoughts.
Britain's Brightest (BBC1, 6.45pm) In the hunt for Britain's best brain box, Clare Balding -she seems to be everywhere at present - is at the helm in aim to finding the brightest spark of the country.
Brain Box - Lego Storage Heads - From pounds 15.99 at www.firebox.com It isn''t hard to imagine how eye-catching one or more of these oversized Lego heads might look in your abode.
BIOLOGICAL science graduate Sarah Jones may spend the day in a medical research laboratory but she's proved she's more than just a brain box - by posing on the front cover of Company magazine.
Image: Brain box Scot Best known for: The Andrew Marr Show on BBC One each Sunday Early life: Marr was born on 31 July 1959, in Glasgow and attended Dundee High School, Craigflower School in Fife, and Loretto School, an independent boarding school in Musselburgh.
When Carol Vorderman first joined Richard Whiteley in the first-ever programme broadcast on Channel 4, she was just an unknown brunette brain box with bad hair.
BEN, aged 25, is a bit of a brain box, and has a Double First BA Degree in Natural Sciences, from Cambridge.
Sleeping beauty: Jake dozes; between attacks on Jacqueline's toes; Brain box:; Lab scored high marks in training club test
Called Brain Box, the exhibition - at Hartlepool Art Gallery in Church Square until Saturday, June 8 - features more than 40 pieces of art created by North-east people with Parkinson's.
"HEY bear, It's me, bear!" If you've just read those words in utter befuddlement you're probably thinking the post-Xmas DTs have finally laid waste to what remaining synapse function my aged brain box still had.
So I put my brain box on and I thought I'd do something for Children in Need."
ANDY MURRAY once again damaged our nervous systems but here's one to fuse the old brain box: what did he and Charles Blondin have in common yesterday?