brain cloud

noun

brain cloud

noun
1

Informal The temporary inability to think properly, or to remember something.

  • 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:
  • 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.
1 more example
  • "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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