- cudgel your brains
- cudgel your ˈbrains idiom
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I had to cudgel my brains to remember her name.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
cudgel your brains
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cudgel your brain/brains — informal + old fashioned : to think very hard : to rack your brain I cudgeled my brains for a solution to the problem. • • • Main Entry: ↑brain cudgel your brain/brains see ↑brain, 1 • • • Main Entry: ↑cudgel … Useful english dictionary
cudgel — 1 noun 1 (C) a short thick stick used as a weapon 2 take up the cudgels to start to fight for an idea that you believe in 2 verb (T) 1 to hit someone with a cudgel 2 cudgel your brains to think very hard about something … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
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