Meanings of brainbox in English

The resident brainbox of British dance is always questing for new territory.

A brainbox, then, are you? She fixed me with a narrow-eyed stare.

Because, frankly, I'm not sure you can fit more than one idea and a half in that brainbox of yours.

It doesn't take a brainbox to see that Kate Emily must have a chance in a two-mile handicap on the Saturday.

He published his discoveries in The Starry Messenger and the Pope declared him a brainbox and a party was thrown in his honour.

Few people in history have achieved greater fame in a shorter period with less useful activity in the brainbox than Gen. Thomas J. Jackson.

The BBC's gently teasing brainbox Evan Davis asked minister David Willetts whether the plan amounted to the hope that all government policies would work well.

'No, but what do you think in that great big whirling brainbox of yours?

'For not having a brainbox the size of his?'