pick someone's brain

Obtain ideas or information from another person, as in I'm out of ideas for decorating-let me pick your brain. This term alludes to picking clean a carcass. [Mid-1800s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Zimri	ZIM-rie (English)	Biblical
Thu	-	Vietnamese
Ormazd	OR-mazd	Persian Mythology
Mstislav	mstee-SLAHF (Russian)	Czech, Russian, Medieval Slavic
Vasilisa	vah-see-LEE-sah	Russian
Vespera	ve-SPE-rah	Esperanto