During the late 19th century losing one s marbles began to be used to mean getting frustrated or angry.
Lost your marbles poem.
This reference from new zealand was printed in the tuapeka times in august 1889.
By max mendelsohn i love the sound of marbles scattered on the worn wooden floor like children running away in a game of hide and seek.
I lost my marbles yesterday and now i ve lost my mind not those childhood marbles but the weird and brain filled kind and now i can t remember things and often get dismayed and now i can t remember things that happened yesterday i can t remember yesterday or just the day before and now it s all so very hard to think straight anymore.
Memories melted midst the timelessness of time languished and lost with no reason nor rhyme yesteryears yearnings so especially sublime long gone from that ladder of life as you grow older and climb.
Have you lost your marbles.
I used to have a good memorybut ive forgotten where its gone and some people get so ornery.
They re ours leave them alone.
Return them from whence they came.
To the athens museum in condition pristine instead of being imprisoned in the gallery duveen.
I ve lost my marbles poem by yor nella.
In truth the marbles should really go home.
You should ask lady ga ga when lost marbles are the theme lol you are a clever devil with words and i should visit that boat of yours to break a bottle of rum and look at pretty girls.