To Lose Your Marbles

Bogart s performance was so affecting that many have supposed the film to be the source of the phrase.

To lose your marbles.

Become irrational or senile. 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. The underlying reference is apparently to the children s game played with multicoloured glass balls.

The goal of lose your marbles which is quite aptly named is to get rid of all your marbles as fast as you can. Informal marbles as a term for a person s mental faculties probably originated as early 20th century american slang. Once you do so they disappear sometimes dumping marbles on your opponent but more and more marbles keep dropping down from the top. Lose one s marbles to be or become mentally deficient incompetent or deranged.

Lose your marbles go insane. My poor grandmother started losing her marbles after she had a stroke. To become of unsound mind. To become of unsound mind.

Lose your marbles definition. 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. To lose one s marbles is to lose one s mind.