Sentence examples for picking brains from inspiring English sources

"There's a bit of instinct [in my game], a bit of just talking to people close to me, picking brains of coaches, little bits and pieces," he said.

Jones is one of the game's great networkers, with contacts all over the world, regularly on the phone or picking brains over a coffee.

They are picking his brains.

In fact, "they were picking our brains.

She's literally picking her brains.

She makes her own assistants useful by picking their brains.

When I arrive, two American archaeologists are picking his brains.

It pounces on their talents, picking their brains, pushing them forward.

And he has not been bashful about picking the brains of several of his distinguished predecessors.

In Wild at Heart, picking her brains out by the side of the road.

But Mr. Bush seems genuinely to enjoy picking the brains of top people.