To Lose Their Marbles

If you say that someone has lost their marbles you mean that their ideas or behaviour.

To lose their marbles.

Informal marbles as a term for a person s mental faculties probably originated as early 20th century american slang. Informal marbles as a term for a person s mental faculties probably originated as early 20th century american slang. To be or become mentally deficient incompetent or deranged. Become irrational or senile.

Such as in the peter pan film hook from the 90 s. In the 1954 film the caine mutiny humphrey bogart linked insanity with marbles when he showed his character the demented lt. The underlying reference is apparently to the children s game played with multicoloured glass balls. Lose your marbles go insane.

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. My poor grandmother started losing her marbles after she had a stroke. I ve been so sleep deprived lately that it feels like i ve lost my marbles.

To lose one s marbles is to lose one s mind. Losing my marbles the act or process of going crazy usually caused by life stressors. Become irrational or senile. It can only be assigned to players who have completed the buyers and cellars quest and the first caper from tiny acorns.

My poor grandmother started losing her marbles after she had a stroke. Also used in the past tense phrase. Lose your marbles go insane. The orgin of the phrase is unknown but has been referenced numerous times in popular culuture.

Lose one s marbles to be or become mentally deficient incompetent or deranged. Lose one s marbles definition. Bogart s performance was so affecting that many have supposed the film to be the source of the phrase. To become of unsound mind.