| 单词 | on the brain |
| 释义 | > as lemmason the brain e. on the brain: being an obsession, obsessing a person. Frequently to have (also have got ) (something) on the brain. ΚΠ 1838 Times 6 Jan. 6/2 The same thought stamped on the brain of every one, from him who wears a coronet to him who drives a costermonger's cart; same thought on the brain, same word on the tongue. 1862 E. C. Gaskell Lett. (1966) 698 Our poor people would get work, and..we should not be killed with ‘Poor on the Brain’, as I expect we shall before the winter is over. 1869 Congress. Globe Jan. 182/2 The Gazette seems to have the franking privilege ‘on the brain’. 1884 Cromer Let. 11 Mar. in Marq. of Zetland Lord Cromer (1932) ix. 100 I have got it on the brain that much writing is not a good thing for the moment. 1900 C. M. Yonge Mod. Broods i. 12 Child, I believe you have bicycles on the brain. 1911 A. Bennett Hilda Lessways ii. iv. 173 Tom..had for the moment got Beethoven on the brain. 1957 M. Spark Comforters v. 108 Caroline had it very much on the brain that her phantom should be outwitted in this one particular. 1981 P. T. Bauer Equality (1982) ii. 26 (heading) Class on the brain. 2005 S. Amick Lake, River & Other Lake xxvii. 115 We apologize for our under-boy there, Joslyn. Kid's got sex on the brain. < as lemmas |
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