Idiom
brain blast
Meaning
The moment of a sudden unexpected discovery.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I just had a brain blast and solved the problem.”
“She was staring at the blank page for hours until she had a sudden brain blast.”
“After days of fruitless research, a sudden brain blast illuminated the solution to the complex scientific mystery.”
Examples
simple
“I just had a brain blast and solved the problem.”
contextual
“She was staring at the blank page for hours until she had a sudden brain blast.”
complex
“After days of fruitless research, a sudden brain blast illuminated the solution to the complex scientific mystery.”
Origin
The term emerged in the early 21st century, having been popularized by the Jimmy Neutron media franchise. It serves as a linguistic artifact of the titular character's specific method of problem-solving.
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