rack one's brains
Search your stomach, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is s ō uch á nggu ā D ù, which means racking your brain and thinking hard. It's from Bufu Lao.
The origin of Idioms
The first discount of Ming Feng Weimin's Bu Fu Lao: when a family searches for food, they don't know whether they are hungry or thirsty.
Analysis of Idioms
Synonyms: racking one's brains, meditating, meditating, meditating Antonyms: inattentive, absent-minded
Idiom usage
As a predicate or adverbial; used of people. Like this composition, what can be written? ——Pu Songling's truant biography in Qing Dynasty
Chinese PinYin : sōu cháng guā dù
rack one's brains
an altogether different world. lìng yǒu dòng tiān
White rice and green ruminant. bái fàn qīng chú
lose one's virtue in old age. wǎn jié bù zhōng
The source of literary works. wén xíng chū chǔ