To lose one s marbles is to lose one s mind.
Lose my marbles origin.
Lose your marbles go insane.
What s the origin of the phrase lose your marbles.
In the 1954 film the caine mutiny humphrey bogart linked insanity with marbles when he showed his character the demented lt.
The idiom to lose one s marbles has a rather convoluted origin.
At the same time the human mind was envisioned as a place full of unused clutter including mind furniture.
The two became conflated.
Become irrational or senile.
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.
Meaning pronunciation translations and examples.
At one time marbles was a slang term for furniture a misrepresentation of the french word for furniture meubles.
Informal marbles as a term for a person s mental faculties probably originated as early 20th century american slang.
To start to forget things and be confused meaning pronunciation translations and examples.
Lose one s marbles definition.
The underlying reference is apparently to the children s game played with multicoloured glass balls.
My poor grandmother started losing her marbles after she had a stroke.
To become of unsound mind.