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
Mansel	-	English (Rare)
Quincy	KWINT-see	English
Hajnal	HAWY-nawl	Hungarian
Fabijan	FAH-bee-yahn (Croatian)	Croatian, Slovene
SalomÉ	sə-loo-ME (Portuguese)	French, Spanish, Portuguese
Makar	-	Russian