To lose one s marbles is to lose one s mind.
Lose my marbles origin.
Become irrational or senile.
The two became conflated.
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.
I ve been so sleep deprived lately that it feels like i ve lost my marbles.
Lose your marbles go insane.
My poor grandmother started losing her marbles after she had a stroke.
Lose one s marbles to be or become mentally deficient incompetent or deranged.
Lose one s marbles definition.
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.
Lose your marbles definition.
In the 1954 film the caine mutiny humphrey bogart linked insanity with marbles when he showed his character the demented lt.
The idiom to lose one s marbles has a rather convoluted origin.
If you say that someone has lost their marbles you mean that their ideas or behaviour.
Meaning pronunciation translations and examples.
At the same time the human mind was envisioned as a place full of unused clutter including mind furniture.