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pick your brains

phrase/pɪk jɔː breɪnz/

A2CEFR level
10/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister

To informally ask someone knowledgeable for their advice or ideas.

Do you have ten minutes this week? I'd love to pick your brains on the onboarding flow.

Similar: seek your input, tap your expertise

Topic: Business email & meetings in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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