To Lose Your Marbles

Once you do so they disappear sometimes dumping marbles on your opponent but more and more marbles keep dropping down from the top.

To lose your marbles.

To start to forget things and be confused meaning pronunciation translations and examples. Lose one s marbles to be or become mentally deficient incompetent or deranged. To lose one s marbles is to lose one s mind. In the 1954 film the caine mutiny humphrey bogart linked insanity with marbles when he showed his character the demented lt.

To become of unsound mind. Lose your marbles definition. Queeg restlessly jiggling a set of metal balls when under stress in court. Become irrational or senile.

My poor grandmother started losing her marbles after she had a stroke. Lose your marbles go insane. 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. 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 become of unsound mind. Informal marbles as a term for a person s mental faculties probably originated as early 20th century american slang. Lose one s marbles to be or become mentally deficient incompetent or deranged.