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 Cudgel One’s Brains (To).Cue (1 syl.). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Cudgels.
 
To take up the cudgels. To maintain an argument or position. To fight, as with a cudgel, for one’s own way.   1
        “For some reason he did not feel as hot to take up the cudgels for Almira with his mother.”—M. E. Willoins: A Modern Dragon.
 


 Cudgel One’s Brains (To).Cue (1 syl.). 

 
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