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(idiomatic) Obsessively in mind.
Though a good chuckle-headed fellow, and free with his bread and cheese, he seemed to have his lord the Abbot on the brain[.]
1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 40:I've been studying for my electronics exam so hard, for so long, that now I've got circuit diagrams on the brain!
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ru на уме́ (Obsessively in mind) · de im Schädel (Obsessively in mind) · de im Kopf (Obsessively in mind)