scratch one's head

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)Topuzzle,ponder, orwonderabout 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 andscratch his head.2010December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool”, inBBC‎[1]:But Sunderland will be leftscratching their headsat the result after creating enough chances to have won two games in a refreshingly open and frantic first period.

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