pick someone's brain(s)
1pick someone's brain/brains — informal : to talk to someone in order to get helpful information or advice Do you have a moment? I need to pick your brain about a little situation that has come up. • • • Main Entry: ↑brain pick someone s brain/brains see ↑brain, 1 • • • Main… …
2pick someone's brain — verb To seek information from someone knowledgeable; to ask questions of someone. After I spent a couple of hours picking his brain, his scheme started to make sense …
3pick someone's brains — see under ↑pick1 • • • Main Entry: ↑brain pick someone s brains To make use of another s brains or ideas for one s own ends • • • Main Entry: ↑pick * * * pick someone’s brains informal …
4pick one’s brain — Solicit ideas from someone. ► “A survey of more than 100 retailers, marketers, and consumer advocates resulted in these strategies to get freebies: . . . 4. Seek out local experts to pick their brains and get free services.” (Money, July 1994,… …
5brain — or brains [brān] n. [ME < OE brægen < IE base * mregh m(n)o , skull, brain > Gr bregma, forehead] 1. [sometimes pl.] the mass of nerve tissue in the cranium of vertebrate animals, an enlarged extension of the spinal cord: it is the main… …
6brain-picking — brain picker, n. /brayn pik ing/, n. Informal. the act of obtaining information or ideas by questioning another person. [1950 55; from the v. phrase pick someone s brains; see ING1] * * * …
7brain-picking — brain picker, n. /brayn pik ing/, n. Informal. the act of obtaining information or ideas by questioning another person. [1950 55; from the v. phrase pick someone s brains; see ING1] …
8brain — [[t]bre͟ɪn[/t]] ♦♦ brains, braining, brained 1) N COUNT Your brain is the organ inside your head that controls your body s activities and enables you to think and to feel things such as heat and pain. Her father died of a brain tumour. 2) N COUNT …
9brain — brain1 [ breın ] noun *** 1. ) count the organ inside your head that allows you to think and feel, and controls your body: The human brain is divided into two halves. a ) only before noun belonging to or connected with the brain: a brain… …
10brain — brainlike, adj. /brayn/, n. 1. Anat., Zool. the part of the central nervous system enclosed in the cranium of humans and other vertebrates, consisting of a soft, convoluted mass of gray and white matter and serving to control and coordinate the… …
