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agonize over something (lexicographer); think hard (linton) | |||
rack one's brain (to think very hard in order to try to remember something, solve a problem, etc. (Merriam-Webster): I decided to be brave and opened the screen door just enough to stick my head outside. I held my son up to look at it also, still indoors. After it looked at me and yet showed no fear I had more time to study it and I was racking my brain to identify what it was that I was seeing. (mysteriousuniverse.org) ART Vancouver) | |||
rack one's brains (Andrey Truhachev) |
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