"The brains will beat the brawns any day of the week," he once said.
Who are these boxers who travel the Southern Circuit, getting their brains beat in for a couple of hundred bucks?
We're getting our brains beat out financially, and it's up to you boys to catch up with the opposition and return the favor.
Mr. Blair's brain beat his body down in a short sharp struggle, for it knew an opportunity when it saw one.
Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
I did it because I didn't want to get my brains beat anymore.
He thinks it takes brains, nothing more, to beat Dirk.
Granted, we got our brains beat in here, but it is a much-improved Toronto Blue Jays team.
It is not easy to get yourself prepared to play when you've been getting your brains beat in every night.
Places like Harvard, Yale and Princeton - where brains, in theory at least, beat brawn.