Meanings
plural brain clouds
- countableinformaluncountableThe temporary inability to think properly, or to remember something.
1998 Kate F. Hays - Integrating Exercise, Sports, Movement, and Mind He continued to experience "brain cloud" when we discussed her and had difficulty accessing any emotion related to her.
2 more examples
For three weeks she lay on her bed of death ; and one morning, being still in the same brain-cloud, still wondering why her husband did not come to her . . .
1880, Walter Besant, The seamy side"Okay, okay, I must have had a brain cloud or something. I'm sorry, I'm just a dumb country girl. Y'all go away and let me cook."
2005, T. L. Vance, The Third Son
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