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brown study

–noun
deep, serious absorption in thought: Lost in a brown study, she was oblivious to the noise.

Origin:
1525–35
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brown study  
n.  A state of deep thought.

[brown, gloomy + study, mental state.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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