scratch one's head
verbEtymology
scratch + one's + head
Definitions
To puzzle, ponder, or wonder about something.
- Faced with a box full of hundreds of small parts and forty pages worth of assembly instructions, he could do little more than stand there and scratch his head.
- But Sunderland will be left scratching their heads at the result after creating enough chances to have won two games in a refreshingly open and frantic first period.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for scratch one's head. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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