| 单词 | to cudgel one's brains |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cudgel one's brains d. to cudgel one's brains: to make a tremendous effort to think about or remember something; see also to beat the brains at beat v.1 29a, to break one's brain at break v. 12b, to burst one's brain at burst v. 10. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > thought > think [verb (intransitive)] > hard to burst one's brainc1385 to break one's mind (heart)a1450 to break one's brain, mind, wind1530 to beat the brains1579 to rack one's brain (also brains, wit, memory, etc.)1583 hammer1598 beat1604 to cudgel one's brains1604 to bother one's brains (also brain)1755 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 56 Cudgell thy braines no more about it. View more context for this quotation 1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xv. 131 When a gentleman is cudgelling his brain to find any rhyme for sorrow, besides borrow and to-morrow. 1898 Argosy Oct. 554 The captain cudgeled his active brain with the utmost vigor. 1949 F. Towers Tea with Mr. Rochester (1952) 156 I suppose you have friends all over the world cudgelling their brains what beautiful thing they can send you. 1998 Independent 23 Nov. ii. 5/6 No longer shall I cudgel my brains for a picturesque form of words describing oddness, when I have the phrase ‘He's as queer as Dick's hatband that went nine times around and wouldn't meet’. < as lemmas |
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