Idioms (Mind & Brain)

A sudden clever idea

• brain-wave

• brain drain

• no-brainer

• brainwashing

To be unable to decide about something

• to be out of your mind

• to bear sth in mind

• to be in to minds about sth

• mind your own business

To be willing to do sth

• brainwashing

• not to mind sth

• to read sb's mind

• to bear sth in mind

The situation in which large numbers of educated and people leave their own country to live and work where pay and conditions are better

• brainwashing

• no-brainer

• brain-wave

• a brain drain

A decision that is very easy or obvious

• brain drain

• to change one's mind

• to speak one's mind

• no-brainer

The process of making someone believe sth by repeatedly telling them that it is true and preventing any other information from reaching them

• brainwashing

• to pick one's brain

• to speak one's mind

• to pic one's brains

Unable to behave or deal with things normally because sth has made you very worried, unhappy, or angry

• to be in two minds about sth

• to be out of your mind

• mind your own business

• to bear sth in mind

To remember to consider sth when you are thinking about or doing sth else

• to cross one's mind

• to give sb a piece of your mind

• to bear sth in mind

• to be out of your mind

To speak angrily to sb about sth they have done wrong

• to be in two minds about sth

• mind your own business

• to spring to one's mind

• to give sb a piece of your mind

Used to tell sb in a rude way that you do not want them to ask about sth private

• mind your own business

• to take your mind off things

• to cross one's mind

• to be out of your mind