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Put on My Thinking Cap

MEANING IN ENGLISH

To start thinking seriously and carefully in order to solve a problem or come up with an idea.

In context

01

I need to put on my thinking cap to figure out how to restore this century-old heirloom clock.

02

Let us put on our thinking caps and document our grandmother's culinary recipes before they fade away.

Synonyms

ponder deeply,brainstorm,deliberate

Antonyms

act rashly,ignore,daydream

Collocations

time to put on thinking cap,put on thinking cap and ponder,need to put on thinking cap

Sources

Bidyazo vocabulary library ↗