I Have Lost My Marbles Meaning

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

I have lost my marbles meaning.

Bogart s performance was so affecting that many have supposed the film to be the source of the phrase. To lose one s marbles is to lose one s mind. To become of unsound mind. In the late 19th century the discomfiture of a boy who has lost his marbles seems to have been to a certain extent proverbial in american english.

At one time to lose one s marbles meant to become angry. 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. Queeg restlessly jiggling a set of metal balls when under stress in court.

Lose your marbles definition. In the 1954 film the caine mutiny humphrey bogart linked insanity with marbles when he showed his character the demented lt. To start to forget things and be confused meaning pronunciation translations and examples. For instance the following is from the daily shreveport times shreveport louisiana of 28th march 1876.

I ve been so sleep deprived lately that it feels like i ve lost my marbles. Jeffrey kemp apr 14 14 at. My poor grandmother started losing her marbles after she had a stroke. I don t think the idiom works in the positive really although i guess it would be acceptable.

See full dictionary entry for marble. What s the origin of the phrase lose your marbles. I believe he s lost his marbles meaning he s gone crazy comes from an imagined inmate of an asylum who is wandering everywhere looking obsessively for his marbles having never had any to begin with presumably. The term lose one s marbles has undergone an evolution in meaning.

My poor grandmother started losing her marbles after she had a stroke. 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. Informal i ll tell it to you although you ll probably think i ve lost my marbles.