"RACK YOUR BRAINS / RACK YOU BRAIN"
If you rack your brains, or rack you brain, you try hard to remember something or think of a solution to a problem or a puzzle.
Example: I'm racking my brains, but I just can't think of his name.
Romperse la cabeza.
Example sentences:
- Shelley's writing this song about being out of work and she's racking her brain trying to come up with a good rhyme for "unemployed" / Shelley está escribiendo una canción sobre estar sin trabajo y está rompiéndose la cabeza tratando de llegar a una buena rima para "desempleados".
- Sometimes I have to rack my brains if I want to think of a phone number / A veces tengo que romperme la cabeza si quiero pensar en un número de teléfono.
Additional examples:
- Racked my brain thinking about how to solve our money problems, and all I could come up with was getting a second job.
- Well, don't rack your brain about it, because the whole situation could change tomorrow.
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