little grey cells brain cells (as symbolic of high intelligence or mental acuity).
☞ The phrase is particularly associated with the cerebral Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, invented by Agatha Christie.
2013New Statesman Computers sometimes help, but the crucial work is done by those 'little grey cells', as Hercule Poirot would say.
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