To Lose Your Marbles Meaning

Lose one s marbles to be or become mentally deficient incompetent or deranged.

To lose your marbles meaning.

Lose your marbles lose one s mind insanity person who does not have common sense wits. To lose one s marbles is to lose one s mind. In the 1954 film the caine mutiny humphrey bogart linked insanity with marbles when he showed his character the demented lt. To become of unsound mind.

I ve been so sleep deprived lately that it feels like i ve lost my marbles. Informal marbles as a term for a person s mental faculties probably originated as early 20th century american slang. To become insane when he started ranting about how the government was out to get him i thought he d lost his marbles. Lose your marbles go insane.

Lose your marbles definition. Become irrational or senile. My poor grandmother started losing her marbles after she had a stroke. The underlying reference is apparently to the children s game played with multicoloured glass balls.

To start to forget things and be confused meaning pronunciation translations and examples. Queeg restlessly jiggling a set of metal balls when under stress in court.