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2011年8月20日 · Which is the correct usage: "rack my brain" or "wrack my brain"? Google turned up pages with conflicting recommendations. One argument is that to "rack a brain" comes from the torture device known as a rack. Another from the now obsolete Yahoo Answers
2018年10月13日 · What word can I use in place of the idiom "rack one's brain," which means to strain in mental effort, esp to remember something (from Collins)? For instance, a teacher put a chalk box in the principal's office yesterday, but today he is trying his level best to remember where he put that box.
2017年2月15日 · In Milton's Paradise Lost (1667) humanity's coming afflictions include "Joint-racking Rheums" while the expression "Racking your brains" goes back at least as far as 1680. In the early 20th Century "nerve-wracking" also began to appear - in the Times it was in an advert in 1905, and a 1910 news report on Peary's planned polar expedition.
2017年2月20日 · In my experience "racking my brain" is only used when trying to remember something, not in trying to understand something. – AndyT Commented Feb 20, 2017 at 11:56
2023年2月17日 · I was wondering if you could help me with a word. I've been racking my brain for a few hours - and nothing. So, the word I'm looking for means taking initiative, but it has to have a negative connotation. A noun, preferably, as when a person doesn't wait for approval ,
2020年10月16日 · Brain maps General Science, Physics & Math 2 Apr 15, 2023 S effects of EM fields in the brain General Electronics Chat 91 Jul 22, 2022 T Need to revise, nothing entering my brain Off-Topic 16 Feb 18, 2022 W Multiple 12v DC fan project on a racking supplied 1
2015年3月23日 · The word same is usually used with the definite article. However, it can be used with any central determiner which marks the noun phrase as definite: these same ideas. those very same people. my same friend. whose same idea. Ben's same problems. There are also some stock phrases which don't use the definite article.
2019年9月22日 · Been racking my brain for days on this and can't seem to come up with the right word (or two words) to fully encapsulates describe this type of person... Someone who leads people en masse to transform their lives by educating them, guiding and mentoring them, but through the lens of "on a mass scale" and likely in an automated way.
2023年10月14日 · I’ve been racking my brain about this for a solid 30 minutes and I keep drawing blanks. I know there’s a specific word for someone who works at an establishment, but doesn’t work a consistent schedule. It’s not “part-timer” “floater” “Standby” or “On-call”. There’s
I've been racking my brain, but I can't remember the phrase. For example, when you express an idea, and now you want to express another one, which can be logically supported by the arguments of the first one. I think it's looks similar to: "Bouncing of that
