你在电影中一定不止一次地看过有人绝望地捂住了脸，说“完了！没救了”，这就是他们悲催的“捂脸时刻”。你在生活中是否也曾有过这样的“捂脸时刻”呢？

A facepalm is the physical gesture of placing one's hand flat across one's face or lowering one's face into one's hand or hands. The gesture is found in many cultures as a display of frustration, embarrassment, shock, or surprise.

The word "facepalm" may have originated as recently as 2008, and has been popularized based on an image of the character Captain Jean-Luc Picard performing the gesture in the Star Trek: The Next Generation. Images of stockbrokers facepalming have also been widely used in the media to convey the dismay associated with poor financial performance, and a wide variety of regrettable film, business, and political decisions have been described as facepalms or "facepalm moments".

This gesture is not unique to humans. A group of mandrills at the Colchester Zoo has adopted a similar gesture to signal the desire to avoid social interaction or to be left alone.