To Lose Your Marbles

To become of unsound mind.

To lose your marbles.

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

The underlying reference is apparently to the children s game played with multicoloured glass balls. Informal marbles as a term for a person s mental faculties probably originated as early 20th century american slang. Bogart s performance was so affecting that many have supposed the film to be the source of the phrase. To become of unsound mind.

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. My poor grandmother started losing her marbles after she had a stroke. My poor grandmother started losing her marbles after she had a stroke.

Lose your marbles definition. Queeg restlessly jiggling a set of metal balls when under stress in court. In the 1954 film the caine mutiny humphrey bogart linked insanity with marbles when he showed his character the demented lt.