Fuente de la expresión
Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms
Estructura completa
to be a brain box
Contexto
A few weeks before the Sunday Graphic finally folded, in
December 1960, three of the staff were whisked across to join the Sunday Times — Robert
Robinson who did films and show business for the Graphic, Peter Wilsher who was a brain
box with a first in Mathematics from Cambridge, so I was told, and the sports editor.
Tipo de fuente
Libro
Autor
Hunter Davies
Título de la fuente
A Life in the Day
Año
2017
Web
https://books.google.es/books?id=tzRFDQAAQBAJ&pg=PP16&dq=%22was+a+brain+box% 22&hl=es&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwji08D_7L7tAhUJohQKHbM6ApEQ6AEwAnoECAUQAg#v=o nepage&q=%22was%20a%20brain%20box%22&f=false
Idioma
English
Nivel de uso
Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
Marca dialectal
Dialectal British, Australian
Frecuencia
Frecuente