Being a londoner myself i suspected it might be a cockney expression but i recently heard it in peter pan where the uncle who is not quite compos mentis is said to have found his lost marbles.
Lost my marbles peter pan.
I m an orphan and i ve never done drugs because i missed the sixties i was an accountant.
Can you tell me the origin of the expression he has lost his marbles meaning gone mad or lost his reason or done something really stupid.
It was toodles who i believe hid or misplaced them at one time and had forgotten where.
With age he began to.