To Have All My Marbles

What is common in all the early citations is the sense of loss and the consequent reaction to it.

To have all my marbles.

To be mentally sound. Welcome to the got all your marbles. Typically used in the phrase for all the marbles which is said when one is on the verge of victory. Very often with a negative or said to convey doubt i don t think he has all his marbles.

Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals most commonly calcite or dolomite marble is typically not foliated although there are exceptions in geology the term marble refers to metamorphosed limestone but its use in stonemasonry more broadly encompasses unmetamorphosed limestone. What does doesn 39 t have all my marbles expression mean. He is currently in first place so his final putt is for all the marbles. Definitions by the largest idiom dictionary.

By 1927 the loss of sanity meaning had won out and an edition of american speech defined the term unambiguously. All the marbles all possible prizes or rewards. Have all your marbles to be completely sane and rational the producerhas found four particularly fearless octogenarians. Truly the piece of jewelry that will go with any wardrobe every outfit.

That is a positive version of marbles. Frank apr 14 14 at 6 08. Definition of doesn t have all my marbles in the idioms dictionary. There goes a man who doesn t have all his marbles see also.

Marbles doesn t have all his verb phrase mentally deficient. Marble is commonly used for sculpture and as a building material. Doesn t have all my marbles phrase. You ll love the range of awesome styles we have.

To have all one s mental faculties. But he s still got all his marbles is fairly common in the uk to mean someone with a physical disability or perhaps someone extremely old and frail but who still has their full mental capacity. Have all one s marbles fig. And they have all their marbles.