ADJ
- human
- left, right
- The left brain controls the right-hand side of the body
BRAIN + NOUN
- cell, tissue
- region
- function, process
- activity
- damage, disease, disorder, failure, haemorrhage, illness, injury, tumour
- scan
- surgeon, surgery
PREP
- in the/your ~
- Doctors tried to reduce the swelling in his brain
- on the/your ~
- He was found to have a blood clot on his brain. (figurative) He's got football on the brain (= thinks about nothing but football)
PHRASES
- blow your brains out
- While cleaning his shotgun he had accidentally blown his own brains out
ADJ
- fertile, fine, good, great, quick
- muddled, tired
- My tired brain couldn't cope with such a complex problem
- analytical
VERB + BRAIN
- rack
- We racked our brains but we couldn't come up with a solution
- pick sb's (= ask sb for information because they know more about a subject than you)
- I need to pick your brains: what can you tell me about credit unions?
- take
- It doesn't take much brain to work out that both stories can't be true
BRAIN + VERB
- function, tick over, work
- It's important to keep your brain ticking over
- reel
- His brain reeled as he realized the implication of his dismissal
- register sth
- The stopping distance includes the time taken for the brain to register the need to stop
PREP
- ~ behind
- the brains behind the robberies
PHRASES
- brains and brawn/brains and not brawn, etc.
- They relied on brains rather than brawn (= intelligence, not strength)
- have a brain for sth
- She has a good brain for mathematics
