To Lose Your Marbles Meaning

My poor grandmother started losing her marbles after she had a stroke.

To lose your marbles meaning.

The underlying reference is apparently to the children s game played with multicoloured glass balls. Become irrational or senile. Lose your marbles lose one s mind insanity person who does not have common sense wits. To lose one s marbles is to lose one s mind.

To start to forget things and be confused meaning pronunciation translations and examples. Informal marbles as a term for a person s mental faculties probably originated as early 20th century american slang. Please tell us where you read or heard it including the quote if possible. In the 1954 film the caine mutiny humphrey bogart linked insanity with marbles when he showed his character the demented lt.

Lose your marbles definition. To become of unsound mind. I ve been so sleep deprived lately that it feels like i ve lost my marbles. Lose your marbles go insane.

To become insane when he started ranting about how the government was out to get him i thought he d lost his marbles. Queeg restlessly jiggling a set of metal balls when under stress in court.