scratch ones headとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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scratch one's head (三人称単数 現在形 scratches one's head, 現在分詞 scratching one's head, 過去形および過去分詞形 scratched one's head)

1. (idiomatic) 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.

   • 2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     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.

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