To Lose Your Marbles

Lose your marbles definition.

To lose your marbles.

To become of unsound mind. Lose one s marbles to be or become mentally deficient incompetent or deranged. Queeg restlessly jiggling a set of metal balls when under stress in court. My poor grandmother started losing her marbles after she had a stroke.

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

To start to forget things and be confused meaning pronunciation translations and examples. Bogart s performance was so affecting that many have supposed the film to be the source of the phrase. Lose your marbles go insane. My poor grandmother started losing her marbles after she had a stroke.

In the 1954 film the caine mutiny humphrey bogart linked insanity with marbles when he showed his character the demented lt. The goal of lose your marbles which is quite aptly named is to get rid of all your marbles as fast as you can. To lose one s marbles is to lose one s mind.