📒 the organ inside the head that controls movement, thought, memory and feeling
- The human brain is a complex organ.
- My tired brain couldn't cope with such a complex problem.
- She was found to have sustained a brain injury.
📒 the brain of an animal, eaten as food
📒 the ability to learn quickly and think about things in a logical and intelligent way
- It doesn't take much brain to work out that both stories can't be true.
- Teachers spotted that he had a good brain at an early age.
- You need brains as well as brawn (= intelligence as well as strength) to do this job.
📒 an intelligent person
- one of the best scientific brains in the country
- We have the best scientific brains in the country working on this.
📒 the most intelligent person in a particular group; the person who is responsible for thinking of and organizing something
- He's always been the brains of the family.
- the brains behind something The band's drummer is the brains behind their latest venture.
- He was the brains behind the robberies.
📒 to think very hard about something for a long time
- I’ve been beating my brains out all weekend to get this script written.
📒 to kill yourself/somebody by shooting yourself/them in the head
- He put a gun to his head and threatened to blow his brains out.
- While cleaning his shotgun he had accidentally blown his own brains out.
📒 to think very hard
- I had to cudgel my brains to remember her name.
📒 to think about something all the time, especially in a way that is annoying
- He's got football on the brain.
📒 to ask somebody a lot of questions about something because they know more about the subject than you do
- I need to pick your brains: what can you tell me about credit unions?
📒 to think very hard or for a long time about something
- She racked her brains, trying to remember exactly what she had said.
- We racked our brains but we couldn't come up with a solution.