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rack one's brain: idiomatic phrasal verb. to make a great effort to achieve something mentally demanding or try to remember something very hard
Examples:
"I racked my brain last night trying to remember where I put the address book, finally I could remember where it was."
"No one needs to rack her brain for this problem. Just look up the answer in the technical manual."
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