put thinking cap on

put thinking cap on
put (your) thinking cap on to start to think seriously about how to solve a problem.

Let me put my thinking cap on and see if I can come up with an answer.


New idioms dictionary. 2014.

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  • put your thinking cap on — put (your) thinking cap on to start to think seriously about how to solve a problem. Let me put my thinking cap on and see if I can come up with an answer …   New idioms dictionary

  • put on your thinking cap — If you put on your thinking cap, you think very hard about something …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • thinking cap — thinking ,cap noun put your thinking cap on SPOKEN used for telling someone to start thinking about how to do something …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • put on one's thinking cap — ► put on one s thinking cap informal meditate on a problem. Main Entry: ↑thinking …   English terms dictionary

  • put on one's thinking-cap — To devote some time to thinking about some problem • • • Main Entry: ↑think …   Useful english dictionary

  • put your thinking cap on — get/put/your thinking cap on old fashioned phrase used for telling someone to start thinking about how to do something Thesaurus: to think carefully or a lot about thingssynonym Main entry: thinking cap * * …   Useful english dictionary

  • thinking cap — noun a state in which one thinks • Hypernyms: ↑state of mind, ↑frame of mind * * * noun, pl ⋯ caps [count] informal used to refer to the act of trying to solve a problem by thinking carefully about it The students weren t wearing their thinking… …   Useful english dictionary

  • put on your thinking cap —    If you tell someone to put their thinking cap on, you ask them to find an idea or solve a problem by thinking about it.     Now here s this week s quiz; it s time to put your thinking caps on! …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • thinking cap — n. (old fashioned) to put on one s thinking cap ( to ponder a problem ) * * * (old fashioned) to put on one s thinking cap ( to ponder a problem ) …   Combinatory dictionary

  • put on one's thinking cap — think hard and long about something I will put on my thinking cap and try and decide what to do about finding a new job …   Idioms and examples

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