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brainchild

or brain-child, brain child

[ breyn-chahyld ]

noun

plural brainchildren.
  1. a product of one's creative work or thought.


brainchild

/ ˈɪˌʃɪ /

noun

  1. informal.
    an idea or plan produced by creative thought; invention
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of brainchild1

First recorded in 1880–85; brain + child
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It was the brainchild of Mike Taylor, a manager at the Forestry Commission, now Forestry England, who had a "strong passion" for music and the outdoors.

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Dear Daughter podcast is the brainchild of Namulanta Kombo, a mother from Nairobi on a quest to create a "handbook to life" for her daughter, through the advice of parents from all over the world.

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The whole movement against CRT was the brainchild of a right-wing activist by the name of Christopher Rufo, who single-handedly pushed the idea into the mainstream in 2020, during the pandemic.

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The film was the brainchild of Kostiantyn Bidnenko, who proposed making a short piece about Roman to his fellow Goldsmiths MA students.

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"And Daniel is really good at helping us to do that because it's his brainchild and he knows exactly what he wants every time."

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