be the brains behind

be the brains behind something

to be the person who plans and organizes something, especially something successful He was the brains behind many of the best movies ever made.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Grigor	-	Welsh, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Armenian
Hymie	-	Yiddish
Zakkai	-	Biblical Hebrew
Elis	E-lis (Swedish)	Swedish, Medieval English
Ichabod	IK-ə-bahd (English)	Biblical
Ennio	EN-nyo	Italian