brain someone

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.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

brain someone

Hit someone hard on the head. For example, The roof collapsed and a bunk of plaster brained him, or I'll brain you if you don't get to those dishes! This term is used both literally (first example) and hyperbolically (second example). [Slang; 1930s]
See also: brain, someone
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
See also:
  • brain
  • brain (someone)
  • bash
  • bash (someone's) brains in
  • beat (someone's) brains in
  • beat the stuffing out of (someone)
  • knock the stuffing out of (one)
  • knock the stuffing out of somebody
  • knock the stuffing out of someone
References in periodicals archive
If I didn't fall down I'd tell Chris Brain someone was watering his beer."