Talk:wrack one's brain

Not the preferred form

Note that to wrack is to wreck whereas to rack is to stretch. The term wrack one's brain does gets used but people don't usually intend that the thinking is so hard that there's a brain in ruin. In contrast, racking one's brain would give it a good workout.

Thanks, that’s correct and sourced; noted in 37592337!

—Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 00:25, 14 March 2016 (UTC)