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scratch one's head

To puzzle, ponder, or wonder about something.

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  • scratch + one's + head
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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.

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Submitted on September 01, 2009

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