left brain
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- noun
- /lɛft breɪn/
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- But, I've got to say I'm quite enjoying the challenge of using more of my left brain.
- left brain and right brain
And I'd be in there and my left brain would be going stop, stop, stop.
- And I'd be in there and my left brain would be going stop, stop, stop.
- People are either left brain or right brain dominant.
- And he's focused a lot on differences between right brain and left brain forms of attachment.
- So Heather, do you think there was a left brain right brain war going on in his head?
- I think I have a good balance of like right and left brain.
- No, she's off the chart, doing nothing with her left brain.
- No, it's again, it's right and left brain thinkers working to deliver, working together to conceive great things.
- It actually gets it's able to, you're able to, as you get older, move from the linear left brain to the creative right brain much more easily, more adeptly.
- But there's no posturing from his left brain.
- A discussion about emotions would not be complete without talking about the right brain, left brain stuff.
Examples
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Schools with traditional curriculums appeal mostly to the capabilities of the left brain: verbal and logical learning.
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Get some distance, gain inspiration, keep moving forward, and turn off your left brain.
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The left brain and the right brain.
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People are either left brain or right brain dominant.
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And for most of us, the left brain is stronger at processing language.
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Schools with traditional curriculums appeal mostly to the capabilities of the left brain: verbal and logical learning.
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People are either left brain or right brain dominant, which affects their thinking style.
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Those who excel at math and logic are often considered left brain dominant individuals.
Synonyms
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The left half of the brain that controls the right side of the body and helps language and logical thinking
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'left brain' is a straightforward compositional combination of 'left' (the left side) and 'brain' (the organ), so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer it refers to the left hemisphere of the brain. The additional popularly attributed functions (controls the right side of the body; logical/analytical bias) are conventional knowledge beyond the words themselves but do not make the term idiomatic or non-compositional.
Etymology
The name left brain comes from doctors' findings that damage to the left side of the brain often made people lose speech and affected the right side of the body. Because of that clear link, people came to see the left brain as the place for 'logic' and careful thinking, so today we use left brain to mean someone who is more 'logical' or analytical.