Brain Idioms - 10 English Idioms with Examples

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English Like A Native


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The human brain is truly amazing and today I will  share with you 10 amazing English phrases that  
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include the word brain so get your brain into  gear and let's go to brainwash. To brainwash  
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someone means that you make them believe that  something's true by constantly telling them  
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you manipulate them to your way of thinking you  brainwash them have you ever been brainwashed  
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oranges don't grow on trees they're made  in a factory they're full of pollutants
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they will make you sick, it's radioactive you'll  turn orange, it's a plot by the government,  
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a global conspiracy, they're out to get you. to  have a brain like a sieve. A sieve is an object in  
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the kitchen that helps to separate food from water  when you've been boiling it or soaking it in water  
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it's like a bowl full of holes so the water  just passes straight through and it catches  
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all the objects that you want to save now if you  have a brain like a sieve then it means you have  
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a very bad memory and you forget things so easily  sometimes i feel like i have a brain like a sieve  
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what did I do this morning.
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I've forgotten I can't remember anything these  days I've got a brain like a sieve to have a brain  
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wave this is very simply to have a very sudden  and clever idea it just washes over you to have a  
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brain wave oh I just don't I'm supposed to make a  video but I can't think of any ideas what to do um
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I know I'll make a video about English idioms,  yes to wrap your brain around something sometimes  
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you'll hear the phrase to wrap your head around  something as well and this means to be able to  
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fully understand something to try and concentrate  or focus on it to understand all the details can  
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you get your brain around that description hey  what's up I just can't work it out what how to  
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wrap my brain around this contract I mean I can  wrap the contract around my brain but I don't  
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know how to do it the other way around to get this  brain around the contract I just don't understand
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if you say your brain is fried it means that  your brain is tired you're mentally tired  
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and unable to do basic cognitive tasks  like concentrate and make decisions  
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ugh my brain is fried anna can we talk about  a complicated but incredibly important matter  
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I'm sorry I literally can't my brain is fried
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oh oh yeah that brain is not  gonna function any time soon
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to pick someone's brain this one means that  you ask someone for information or advice  
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because their brain holds more information than  yours does so you pick at it to try and find  
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the information that you need. Nick, can  I pick your brain for a minute? yeah sure
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I know I'm just not sure if it's a good decision  to move forward with a property purchase now that  
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I know that the last few owners have popped their  clogs in there it is a tricky one I have to say  
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if you are described as the brains behind  something like a great idea a new initiative  
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an event an organization then it means  that you are the person who planned it who  
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organized it who orchestrated the whole  thing you are the brains behind it
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thank you so much, everyone, for this amazing  award what an honor but I cannot take all the  
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credit, after all, I am just the face of  the brand this company would not exist  
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if it wasn't for the amazing ideas of  brain let me just bring him out here.
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to be brain dead now there are two meanings of  brain dead there's a very literal meaning which  
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means your brain has sustained an injury that  it cannot recover from it cannot function any  
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longer or there's the metaphorical version that we  use and when we use it we're referring to someone  
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who is completely exhausted mentally and cannot  function anymore or they are a bit stupid so  
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if you call someone brain dead be careful of the  context because you're either calling them stupid  
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or you might be suggesting that they're very  mentally tired in fact I would only ever say that  
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I am feeling a bit brain dead I'd never  say that anyone else is brain dead.  
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I'm sorry we did everything we could, she's gone.
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Are you gonna be okay?
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It's not funny. Next up is brain dump, to  brain dump is the act of transferring all the  
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contents of your mind based on a particular  topic onto a blank page, the point is to  
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declutter your mind in order to allow you to  focus. oh I am full of ideas I can't my head  
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it feels like it's going to explode I just  there's so much in there hang on a minute
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Oh that's better what did you just do oh I just  
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brain dumped now I can think straight and our  final brain phrase for today is brain fart  
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how fantastic the word fart means to expel gas  from your bottom and brain fart is basically a  
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temporary mental lapse or a failure to reason and  function mentally so for example if you forget  
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your name what's my name uh uh sorry I'm just  having a brain fart um anna, of course, a brain  
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of heart it was lovely to talk to you um can I get  your number? yeah, of course, it's.......errmmmm
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I'm sorry about that oh sorry what was  I saying yes my number it's oh one six  
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um um sorry uh my numbers oh one six  um uh so one six one uh no no no no oh
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sorry
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What did you do that for? Think next time.
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Fantastic. I hope that your brain has managed  to absorb all of those new phrases try to use  
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some of them in the comments section below and  put what you've learned into practice now if  
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you'd like the notes to keep forever and remember  our time together then I've put together a pdf  
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for you all you have to do is click on the  link below fill in your details to join our ESL  
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mailing list and I will send them to you  until next time thanks for joining and goodbye
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