beat one's brains out

If you do, he really will beat your brains out.

You'd beat your brains out to find a way of getting it done.

"Stand away and let me pass, or I'll beat your brains out!"

Seven hours of beating your brains out when you weren't feeling all that hot to begin with.

"Son, if you weren't needed, I'd beat your brains out with an old phone list."

You don't have to beat your brains out over it."

"Well, if that's the case, why did the burglar leave without taking anything after he went to the trouble of beating your brains out?"

Then they try to beat your brains out.

"You looked as though somebody was beating your brains out with a spiked club.

In a flat and strangely closed tone, he said, "You've been beating your brains out on this thing ever since it started.

Johnson," he gave the young assistant an encouraging grin, "don't beat your brains out, but do the best you can.

She probably won't do much worse than beat your brains out with a two-inch spanner if you ask her.

'I'd beat your brains out in public.

"They say, 'Let me in and I'll compete with you and beat your brains out.'

"Every big-name university in the country wants to bring you in and invite you to a nice payday and beat your brains out," Newman said.

He'll beat your brains out... and he'll write a beautiful poem about it and send it to her with a bunch of roses.

"Aye, an' mayhaps I'll beat your brains out agin that great boulder if yer make another stupid suggestion.

"In daytime, it's hectic, it's 'I'm going to beat your brains out, rush, rush, rush,' " he said.

Mr. Manning said of Mr. Roman, "I welcome him to the family, and I'm looking forward to beating your brains out in the next head-to-head competition we have."

Two singles were lifted from the album: "Love Will Beat Your Brains Out" (which unfortunately did not chart) and a cover of Paul Petersen's hit "My Dad."

Then he burst out, "Look, Governuh, you're going to run for President next year, and when you do, we're going to beat your brains out in Texas if you veto this bill."

When I grew up we had fistfights, but today you look at the wrong person the wrong way and they want to shoot you, stab you, beat your brains out - they want to kill you.

Yes, I do see war as a way of living with another; by imposing your will on another in terms so unmistakable that the opponent has to either knuckle under to you, die, or beat your brains out.

Don't beat your brains out over the fact that you'll be discovering the space station of the planet Druufon, even though the discharge cone it's generating is somewhere near the Earth about 6300 light-years from there.