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wrestle with (wrestle with a question scherfas); puzzle one's brains about (чем-л.) | |||
ransack one's brains about (or with something george serebryakov); addle one's brain (чем-либо Slavik_K); pit wits against something (чем-либо Alexey Lebedev) | |||
bother one's head about something (чем-либо); trouble head about (чем-либо); bother one's head over something (чём-либо); puzzle one's head about something (чём-либо); puzzle one's head over something (чём-либо); puzzle over (чем-либо); rack one's brains over something (чем-либо) | |||
beat one's brains out (чем-либо); beat one's head about a thing (чем-либо); beat one's head with a thing (чем-либо) | |||
bang one's head on (SAKHstasia) | |||
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beat one's brains over something |
ломать голову над: 79 phrases in 6 subjects |
Figurative | 1 |
General | 27 |
Makarov | 47 |
Obsolete / dated | 1 |
Proverb | 2 |
Rhetoric | 1 |