To Lose Your Marbles

The underlying reference is apparently to the children s game played with multicoloured glass balls.

To lose your marbles.

Lose your marbles definition. Once you do so they disappear sometimes dumping marbles on your opponent but more and more marbles keep dropping down from the top. Informal marbles as a term for a person s mental faculties probably originated as early 20th century american slang. To become of unsound mind.

Lose one s marbles to be or become mentally deficient incompetent or deranged. Lose one s marbles to be or become mentally deficient incompetent or deranged. My poor grandmother started losing her marbles after she had a stroke. Lose your marbles go insane.

To become of unsound mind. To start to forget things and be confused meaning pronunciation translations and examples. To lose one s marbles is to lose one s mind. My poor grandmother started losing her marbles after she had a stroke.

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. The goal of lose your marbles which is quite aptly named is to get rid of all your marbles as fast as you can. Bogart s performance was so affecting that many have supposed the film to be the source of the phrase.