Idiom
get someone's neurons firing
Meaning
To stimulate brain action; to make someone think a lot.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“This puzzle really gets my neurons firing.”
“The professor asked a difficult question to get the students' neurons firing during the lecture.”
“The complex philosophical debate served to get everyone's neurons firing, forcing them to reconsider their long-held beliefs about morality.”
Examples
simple
“This puzzle really gets my neurons firing.”
contextual
“The professor asked a difficult question to get the students' neurons firing during the lecture.”
complex
“The complex philosophical debate served to get everyone's neurons firing, forcing them to reconsider their long-held beliefs about morality.”
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