rack your brains | rack you brain
Meaning: If you rack your brains, or rack you brain, you try hard to remember something or think of a solution to a problem or a puzzle.
For example:
- I'm racking my brains, but I just can't think of his name.
- Shelley's writing this song about being out of work and she's racking her brain trying to come up with a good rhyme for "unemployed".
Quick Quiz:
Sometimes I have to rack my brains if I want to
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