To Lose Your Marbles

To start to forget things and be confused meaning pronunciation translations and examples.

To lose your marbles.

Queeg restlessly jiggling a set of metal balls when under stress in court. Lose one s marbles to be or become mentally deficient incompetent or deranged. Become irrational or senile. Bogart s performance was so affecting that many have supposed the film to be the source of the phrase.

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. In the 1954 film the caine mutiny humphrey bogart linked insanity with marbles when he showed his character the demented lt. Informal marbles as a term for a person s mental faculties probably originated as early 20th century american slang.

Once you do so they disappear sometimes dumping marbles on your opponent but more and more marbles keep dropping down from the top. To become of unsound mind. My poor grandmother started losing her marbles after she had a stroke. To become of unsound mind.

Lose your marbles go insane. To lose one s marbles is to lose one s mind. 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.