Lose your marbles definition.
To lose your marbles.
To start to forget things and be confused meaning pronunciation translations and examples.
My poor grandmother started losing her marbles after she had a stroke.
To become of unsound mind.
In the 1954 film the caine mutiny humphrey bogart linked insanity with marbles when he showed his character the demented lt.
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.
Become irrational or senile.
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.
Informal marbles as a term for a person s mental faculties probably originated as early 20th century american slang.
The underlying reference is apparently to the children s game played with multicoloured glass balls.
To become of unsound mind.
Queeg restlessly jiggling a set of metal balls when under stress in court.
Lose your marbles go insane.
The goal of lose your marbles which is quite aptly named is to get rid of all your marbles as fast as you can.