PICK SOMEONE`S BRAINS

Meaning of PICK SOMEONE`S BRAINS in English

extract ideas or information from someone for one`s own use They are always picking his brains to get new ideas for their business.

English idioms vocab. Словарь английских идиом и выражений. 2012

PICK SOMEONE'S BRAINS — get information from someone, hear someone's ideas
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
PICK SOMEONE'S BRAINS — informal obtain information by questioning someone well informed. → pick
Concise Oxford English vocab
PICK SOMEONE'S BRAINS — использовать чужие мысли
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PICK SOMEONE'S BRAINS — использовать чужие мысли
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SOMEONE — alcun, alquí
English interlingue dictionary
SOMEONE — pronoun Date: 14th century some person ; somebody
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PICK — I. ˈpik verb ( -ed/-ing/-s ) Etymology: Middle English piken, partly from Middle French piquer to prick, pick, pluck, strike …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SOMEONE — ˈsəm(ˌ)wən pronoun Etymology: Middle English sum oon, from sum, som some + oon one : some person : somebody hoping …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BRAINS — plural of brain present third singular of brain
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PICK — (v.) To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the …
Английский словарь Webster
PICK — ( v. ) To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SOMEONE — /sum"wun', -weuhn/ , pron. some person; somebody. [ 1275-1325; ME; see SOME, ONE ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PICK — pick 1 — pickable , adj. /pik/ , v.t. 1. to choose or select from among a group: to pick …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SOMEONE — pron. some person, somebody
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
SOMEONE — n. person, human, human being
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
BRAINS — n. intelligence, sense
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
PICK — I. ˈpik verb Etymology: Middle English piken, partly from Old English * pīcian (akin to Middle Dutch picken to prick); …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SOMEONE — pronoun Date: 14th century : some person : somebody
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PICK — v to open (a lock) as by a wire. 2. pick ·v to trim. 3. pick ·noun choice; right of …
Webster English vocab
SOMEONE — ■ pronoun 1》 an unknown or unspecified person. 2》 a person of importance or authority.
Concise Oxford English vocab
BRAINS — the substance of an animal's brain used as food. → brain
Concise Oxford English vocab
SOMEONE — [some.one] pron (14c): some person: somebody
Merriam-Webster English vocab
PICK — [pick] vb [ME piken, partly fr. (assumed) OE pician (akin to MD picken to prick); partly fr. MF piquer to …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SOMEONE — someone BrE AmE ˈsʌm wʌn § \ -wɒn ▶ ˌ someone ˈ clever BrE AmE ▶ ˌ someone ˈ else …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SOMEONE — / ˈsʌmwʌn; NAmE / (also some·body ) pronoun 1. a person who is not known or mentioned by name : …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PICK — / pɪk; NAmE / verb , noun ■ verb 1. to choose sb/sth from a group of people or things …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SOMEONE — I. some ‧ one 1 S1 W1 /ˈsʌmwʌn/ BrE AmE pronoun used to mean a person, when you do not …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
PICK
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SOMEONE — n. & pron. = SOMEBODY.
Английский основной разговорный словарь
PICK — v. & n. --v.tr. 1 (also absol.) choose carefully from a number of alternatives (picked the pink one; picked a …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SOMEONE — n. & pron. = SOMEBODY.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
PICK — v. & n. v.tr. 1 (also absol.) choose carefully from a number of alternatives (picked the pink one; picked a …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SOMEONE — n. & pron. SOMEBODY.
Oxford English vocab
PICK — 1. v. & n. --v.tr. 1. (also absol.) choose carefully from a number of alternatives (picked the pink one; picked …
Oxford English vocab
SOMEONE — or somebody Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. You use someone or …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PICK — ( picks, picking, picked) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. If you …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SOMEONE — or somebody Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. You use ~ or …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
SOMEONE — pronoun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES take someone on an expedition ▪ He’s taking the boys on a camping expedition next …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
PICK
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SOMEONE — somebody [pronoun] - a single personThere's someone outside the house.Someone must have seen what happened.Surely someone knows where the documents …
Cambridge English vocab
BRAINS — [plural] [noun]The animal's brains (= brain) were visible through the damaged skull.I hope the baby has his mother's brains (= …
Cambridge English vocab
SOMEONE — Synonyms and related words : Adamite, being, body, cat, chap, character, creature, customer, duck, earthling, fellow, groundling, guy, hand, head, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
PICK — Synonyms and related words : abuse, accelerate, accost, accumulate, acquire, adz, aggravate, alternativity, amass, annoy, apprehend, arrest, assemble, ax, badger, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
BRAINS — If you had as much brains as guts, what a clever fellow you would be! a saying to a stupid …
Slang English vocab
SOMEONE — pron. Function: pronoun Synonyms: SOMEBODY
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
BRAINS — n. pl. Understanding, sense, mind, reason, intellect, capacity, intellectual faculties.
Dictionary of English Synonyms
SOMEONE — pronoun Synonyms: somebody
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
PICK — I. noun VERB + PICK ▪ have ▪ She had her ~ of the single men. ▪ take ▪ Which …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
BRAINS — See ↑ INTELLIGENT 4,10 ◆◆◆ • ↑ pick sb's brains • ↑ rack your brains
Longman Activator English vocab
PICK — n. 25B6; verb I got a job picking apples : HARVEST, gather (in), collect, pluck; poetic/literary cull. pick the time …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
BRAINS — n. 1) to blow one's ~ out ('to shoot oneself through the head') 2) the ~ to + inf. (does …
The Bbi Combinatory Dictionary of English - A Guide to Word Combinations
PICK — v. 1 Often, pick out. select, choose, cull, sort out, hand-pick, single out, opt for, fix or decide upon or …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
SOMEONE — мест.; неопред. кто-нибудь, кто-то Syn : somebody, anybody кто-то, кто-нибудь, кто-либо - * else кто-то другой - * else's чужой, …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
PICK — I сущ. 1) кирка; кайла Syn : mattock, pickaxe 1., mandrel 2) какое-л. приспособление с заостренным концом а) зубочистка Syn …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
BRAINS — Brains Trust мозговой трест
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
BRAINS — (фигурально) рассудок, ум умственные способности (мн.ч.)
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
BRAINS — Разум
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
BRAINS — Мозг
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
SOMEONE — someone.ogg ʹsʌm|wʌn,-ʹsʌmwən indef pron кто-то, кто-нибудь, кто-либо someone else - кто-то другой someone else's - чужой, не свой someone or …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
PICK — pick.ogg _I pık n 1. 1> остроконечная кирка; кайла; остроконечный инструмент 2> ледоруб, штычок ледоруба ( альпинизм ) 2. разг. …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
PICK — 1) горн. зубок; резец 2) кирка, кайла || разрабатывать плотный грунт киркой 3) окалывать камень 4) разбирать; сортировать; отбирать 5) …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
PICK — 1) горн. зубок; резец 2) кирка, кайла || разрабатывать плотный грунт киркой 3) окалывать камень 4) разбирать; сортировать; отбирать 5) мн. ч. звёздочки (в …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
PICK — 1) выбирать 2) выбор 3) выбрать 4) выискивать 5) выщипать 6) выщипывать 7) забирать 8) забрать 9) захватить 10) захватывать 11) звездочка 12) зубок 13) кайлить 14) кайло 15) кайловый 16) кирка 17) ковырять 18) отбирать 19) отобрать 20) …
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