To Lose Your Marbles Expression

At one time to lose one s marbles meant to become angry.

To lose your marbles expression.

I ve been so sleep deprived lately that it feels like i ve lost my marbles. The idiom to lose one s marbles has a rather convoluted origin. 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.

To lose one s marbles is equally american and the same comment applies. Lose one s marbles to be or become mentally deficient incompetent or deranged. Lose your marbles go insane. To start to forget things and be confused meaning pronunciation translations and examples.

To lose one s marbles is to lose one s mind. The term lose one s marbles has undergone an evolution in meaning. Lose your marbles definition. 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.

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. The association may have been boosted by the alliteration in the words mind and marbles. My poor grandmother started losing her marbles after she had a stroke.

To become of unsound mind. It is as it happens pretty much contemporary with the play. Become irrational or senile. The underlying reference is apparently to the children s game played with multicoloured glass balls.

Go mad go crazy take leave of your senses lose your reason go off your trolley collins english thesaurus. Queeg restlessly jiggling a set of metal balls when under stress in court.