To Lose Your Marbles

Once you do so they disappear sometimes dumping marbles on your opponent but more and more marbles keep dropping down from the top.

To lose your marbles.

The underlying reference is apparently to the children s game played with multicoloured glass balls. Queeg restlessly jiggling a set of metal balls when under stress in court. To lose one s marbles is to lose one s mind. Bogart s performance was so affecting that many have supposed the film to be the source of the phrase.

To become of unsound mind. To become of unsound mind. Lose your marbles go insane. Lose one s marbles to be or become mentally deficient incompetent or deranged.

Informal marbles as a term for a person s mental faculties probably originated as early 20th century american slang. My poor grandmother started losing her marbles after she had a stroke. To start to forget things and be confused meaning pronunciation translations and examples. You may move your rows of marbles up or down or move a specially designated pitch line from right to left in order to get 3 4 or 5 similarly colored marbles in an unbroken horizontal array.

My poor grandmother started losing her marbles after she had a stroke. Lose your marbles definition. Become irrational or senile.