scratch your head
scratch (one's) head
To show that one is puzzled, doubtful, or uncertain; to show that one has trouble understanding something. His decision to pull the plug on the lucrative program has everyone scratching their heads.
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What follows is a brain-twisting game of cat and mouse that seems ergonomically designed to make you scratch your head.
This is the notion that when you're having a conversation with somebody and you don't care where your hands are, and the other person scratches their head, you scratch your head," said Sasha Ondobaka of the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
HERE'S a mathematical conundrum that's guaranteed to put a smile on your face while you scratch your head at the same time.
If these were not your children, however, you might scratch your head over having paid $25 for an hourlong show about a man who the play makes out to be a charlatan and a swindler.
You'll laugh, sometimes scratch your head, but often say, "I never detected that insight before.
Here's an answer that may make you scratch your head.
It wasn't meant as a compliment, but it could be taken as such; you could applaud this book as a geek-show, the kind that makes you blink, scratch your head, and look at the world with different eyes for a moment.
Do you fear that your colleagues are LOL while you scratch your head trying to figure out what they're talking about?
You just scratch your head and dig deeper below the surface at things like situational hitting, productive outs, stolen bases.
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