# pick someone's brain

idiom

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/pick-someones-brain
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

To seek information from someone knowledgeable; to ask questions of someone.

## Examples

- Can I pick your brain about this problem?
- Before the interview, she picked her friend's brain about what questions to expect.
- The young journalist spent an hour picking the veteran reporter's brain, hoping to learn how to find stories that actually mattered.

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