To Lose Your Marbles Expression

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

To lose your marbles expression.

Lose your marbles definition. To start to forget things and be confused meaning pronunciation translations and examples. To lose one s marbles may be a manifestation of the colorful language of that game playing on the idea that losing your marbles by having them knocked out of the ring means losing the game. In the 1954 film the caine mutiny humphrey bogart linked insanity with marbles when he showed his character the demented lt.

To lose one s marbles is equally american and the same comment applies. It is as it happens pretty much contemporary with the play. Bogart s performance was so affecting that many have supposed the film to be the source of the phrase. To become of unsound mind.

I ve been so sleep deprived lately that it feels like i ve lost my marbles. My poor grandmother started losing her marbles after she had a stroke. To lose one s marbles is to lose one s mind. The idiom to lose one s marbles has a rather convoluted origin.

Lose your marbles go insane. Another word for lose your marbles. To lose one s marbles means to go insane to take leave on one s wits to lose one s mind. At one time marbles was a slang term for furniture a misrepresentation of the french word for furniture meubles.

At one time to lose one s marbles meant to become angry. The underlying reference is apparently to the children s game played with multicoloured glass balls. Become irrational or senile. Go mad go crazy take leave of your senses lose your reason go off your trolley collins english thesaurus.

Which clangs discordantly on my british ear since lost them good is an americanism not natively known this side of the big water and therefore an expression that the scottish barrie could not have used. Informal marbles as a term for a person s mental faculties probably originated as early 20th century american slang.