Idiom
scratch one's head
Meaning
To puzzle, ponder, or wonder about something.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The strange math problem makes me scratch my head.”
“I scratched my head for a while trying to understand why the computer stopped working so suddenly.”
“The detective scratched his head as he reviewed the conflicting evidence, unable to reconcile the witness statements with the physical facts of the case.”
Examples
simple
“The strange math problem makes me scratch my head.”
contextual
“I scratched my head for a while trying to understand why the computer stopped working so suddenly.”
complex
“The detective scratched his head as he reviewed the conflicting evidence, unable to reconcile the witness statements with the physical facts of the case.”
Origin
From *scratch* + *one's* + *head*. The phrase is a literal compound of its constituent parts.
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