rack one's brains

rack one's brains

Search your stomach, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is s ō uch á nggu ā D ù, which means racking your brain and thinking hard. It's from Bufu Lao.

The origin of Idioms

The first discount of Ming Feng Weimin's Bu Fu Lao: when a family searches for food, they don't know whether they are hungry or thirsty.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonyms: racking one's brains, meditating, meditating, meditating Antonyms: inattentive, absent-minded

Idiom usage

As a predicate or adverbial; used of people. Like this composition, what can be written? ——Pu Songling's truant biography in Qing Dynasty