To Lose Your Marbles Meaning

In the 1954 film the caine mutiny humphrey bogart linked insanity with marbles when he showed his character the demented lt.

To lose your marbles meaning.

Bogart s performance was so affecting that many have supposed the film to be the source of the phrase. Informal marbles as a term for a person s mental faculties probably originated as early 20th century american slang. Lose your marbles definition. Lose your marbles lose one s mind insanity person who does not have common sense wits.

To become of unsound mind. Queeg restlessly jiggling a set of metal balls when under stress in court. The underlying reference is apparently to the children s game played with multicoloured glass balls. Lose your marbles go insane.

Comments on lose one s marbles what made you want to look up lose one s marbles. I ve been so sleep deprived lately that it feels like i ve lost my marbles. Lose one s marbles to be or become mentally deficient incompetent or deranged. Become irrational or senile.

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