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| flog memory; beat one's head with a thing (над чем-л.); rack ones brains; addle (над чем-либо); scratch head over (над чем л.); puzzle (над чем-либо); bother head; scratch head over (над чем-либо); puzzle head over something (над чем-либо Anglophile); beat brains (над чем-либо-about, with); cudgel brains (над чем-либо-about, with); rack one's brain (над чем-либо-about, with); set one's wits to work; scratch head (Tanda); tinker (Sergei Aprelikov); beat one's brains out (над чем-либо: We beat our brains out in order to think of a name for the new magazine Taras) | |||
| rack one's brain | |||
| tie oneself into knots; tie someone into knots | |||
| brood (Val_Ships) | |||
| rack one's brain | |||
| sprout gray hairs and frown lines (в английском оригинале говорится о седине и морщинах Alex_Odeychuk) | |||
| tax one's noggin (над чем-либо ЛВ); rack one's brains | |||
| addle one's brain (над чем-либо); addle one's head (над чем-либо); beat one's brains (над чем-либо); cudgel one's brains (над чем-либо); puzzle one's brains (над чем-либо); rack one's brains (над чем-либо); bother one's brains; bother one's head | |||
| rack one's brains | |||
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| ransack brain | |||
| tie oneself up into a knot | |||
| ломать голову: 122 phrases in 10 subjects |
| Archaic | 1 |
| Figurative | 1 |
| General | 43 |
| Idiomatic | 5 |
| Informal | 5 |
| Makarov | 61 |
| Obsolete / dated | 1 |
| Proverb | 3 |
| Rhetoric | 1 |
| Technology | 1 |