rack one's brains(jiǎo jìn nǎo zhī)

rack one's brains

Racking one's brains is a Chinese idiom, pronounced Ji ǎ OJ ì NN ǎ ozh ī, which means to think hard, to think hard, to think hard, to think hard. It's from Lao She's "four generations in the same room: stealing life.".

The origin of Idioms

Lao She's "four generations in the same room: stealing life" 37: "only in this way can he show the appearance of racking his brains and think for him."

Idiom usage

The verb object type is used as predicate, attribute, object and adverbial. He racked his brains to come up with a solution to the problem.

Chinese PinYin : jiǎo jìn nǎo zhī