beat brains

beat (one's) brains (out)

Informal To exert or expend great mental effort: She beat her brains out during the examination.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Evron	-	Yiddish
Rolando	ro-LAHN-do (Spanish)	Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
AnasztÁZia	-	Hungarian
Koert	KOORT	Dutch
Marketta	MAHR-ket-tah	Finnish
Aleksej	-	Slovene