See http://www.facepalm.org/ for a wide-ranging collection of images, each of which convey this idiom without speaking.
- I like the sheer ambiguity of it. One never knows if someone is overwhelmed by the seemingly stupid action of another or by a serious mistake one has committed oneself or by the expectation of the disaster they see coming from one of these or other sources or if it is a gesture of deep thinking. And remember: AlmostNeverDeleteHumor --ManorainjanHolzapfel
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