beat your brains out

Meaning

1. to think very hard about sth for a long time

In the movies · 2

• I'd beat your brains out.Oliver Twist1948
• Beat his brains out.Shane1953

From the same entry

• beat about the bush
• beat at their own game
• beat your breast
• beat the clock
• beat it
• beat a path to door
• beat the rap
• beat a retreat
• beat time
• beat to the punch
• can you beat that
• if you can't beat them, join them