| English | Russian |
| rack one's brain | шевелить мозгами (Val_Ships) |
| rack one's brain | стараться припомнить (to think very hard in order to try to remember something, solve a problem, etc. (Merriam-Webster) ART Vancouver) |
| rack one's brain | стараться понять (to think very hard in order to try to remember something, solve a problem, etc. (Merriam-Webster): I decided to be brave and opened the screen door just enough to stick my head outside. I held my son up to look at it also, still indoors. After it looked at me and yet showed no fear I had more time to study it and I was racking my brain to identify what it was that I was seeing. (mysteriousuniverse.org) ART Vancouver) |
| rack one's brain | пытаться сообразить (to think very hard in order to try to remember something, solve a problem, etc. (Merriam-Webster): I decided to be brave and opened the screen door just enough to stick my head outside. I held my son up to look at it also, still indoors. After it looked at me and yet showed no fear I had more time to study it and I was racking my brain to identify what it was that I was seeing. (mysteriousuniverse.org) ART Vancouver) |
| rack one's brain | стараться разгадать (to think very hard in order to try to remember something, solve a problem, etc. (Merriam-Webster): I decided to be brave and opened the screen door just enough to stick my head outside. I held my son up to look at it also, still indoors. After it looked at me and yet showed no fear I had more time to study it and I was racking my brain to identify what it was that I was seeing. (mysteriousuniverse.org) ART Vancouver) |
| rack one's brain | стараться вспомнить (to think very hard in order to try to remember something, solve a problem, etc. (Merriam-Webster) ART Vancouver) |
| rack one's brain | ломать себе голову (I've been racking my brain trying to recall where we put the key. Val_Ships) |
