help me please to understand the meaning of the following: to get the grey matter going
"Crichton`s new novel is an environmental adventure of trully global proportions. Intelligent, readable and guaranteed to get the grey matter going"Yeah, sure! Thanks, friends. I completely forgot about "litlle grey cells" of Hercule Poiro!
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I asked my son. He said - Use you brain- you know? like Hercule Poirot
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It means to use your brains and intellect, as in ' If you'd only use your grey matter, you'd see the answer in a minute.'
This expression refers to actual brain tissue that is grey in color. Agatha Christie's fictional detective, Hercule Poirot, constantly alluded to 'using the little grey cells' for solving a crime.
Nowadays retirees are encouraged to keep using their brains by doing crosswords, sudoku, computer research etc to avoid getting Alzheimer's disease.
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You can refer to your intelligence or your brains as grey matter.
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