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| busy brain; rack one's brain (to rack/to puzzle/to beat/to ransack one's brains for his name (for a way out, for the answer to his question) – ломать себе голову над тем, чтобы вспомнить, как его зовут (как найти выход, как ответить на его вопрос) Taras); rack wits; overanalyze (VLZ_58); cudgel brains; puzzle one's brains; busy one's brains; rack one's wits | |||
| cudgel thy brains (Shakespeare used it in Hamlet: "Cudgel thy brains no more about it..." Val_Ships) | |||
| cudgel one's brains (He's been cudgeling his brains all day over this problem Val_Ships); rack one's brain (I've been racking my brain trying to recall where we put the key. Val_Ships) | |||
| overthink (над Andrey Truhachev); rack one's brains over (над) | |||
| rack one's brains; busy one's brains | |||
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| torture one's wits | |||
| ломать себе голову: 61 phrases in 4 subjects |
| Figurative | 1 |
| General | 18 |
| Makarov | 41 |
| Obsolete / dated | 1 |