To Lose My Marbles
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To lose my marbles. Queeg restlessly jiggling a set of metal balls when under stress in court. Instead it s an idiom. Losing your marbles doesn t mean you actually had marbles that you can now no longer find. To lose one s marbles is to lose one s mind.
Definitions by the largest idiom dictionary. To become of unsound mind. What does lose my marbles expression mean. Lose one s marbles to be or become mentally deficient incompetent or deranged.
My poor grandmother started losing her marbles after she had a stroke. To lose one s marbles means to go insane to take leave on one s wits to lose one s mind. Lose one s marbles phrase verb inflects if you say that someone has lost their marbles you mean that their ideas or behaviour are very strange as if they have become insane. If you say you re losing your marbles you re claiming that you re going crazy or losing your mind.
That s a phrase whose meaning doesn t match up with the meaning of the actual words used in the phrase. Definition of lose my marbles in the idioms dictionary. The idiom to lose one s marbles has a rather convoluted origin. Losing my marbles one day at a time.
At one time to lose one s marbles meant to become angry. In the 1954 film the caine mutiny humphrey bogart linked insanity with marbles when he showed his character the demented lt. That s a hefty jar maybe too heavy to hold with only one hand.