Idiom
beat one's brain
Meaning
To struggle to think or remember something.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I am beating my brains to remember his name.”
“She beat her brains all morning trying to solve the difficult math problem for her homework.”
“After beating his brains for hours to recall the elusive detail, he finally realized the answer had been in his notes all along.”
Examples
simple
“I am beating my brains to remember his name.”
contextual
“She beat her brains all morning trying to solve the difficult math problem for her homework.”
complex
“After beating his brains for hours to recall the elusive detail, he finally realized the answer had been in his notes all along.”
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