beating one's brains (verb) speculate: think about deeply and theorize
Sinonime: adage, aphorism, apophthegm, axiom,
belief, brocard, byword,
canon,
commonplace,
device,
dictum,
epithet,
formula,
law, moral, motto,
platitude, precept, prescript,
proverb, rule, saw,
tenet, theorem, truism
Antonime: ignore,
neglect