Meaning Of Lost One S Marbles

This reference from new zealand was printed in the tuapeka times in august 1889.

Meaning of lost one s marbles.

For i tell you that no boy ever lost his marbles more irrevocably than you and i will lose our self respect if we remain to take part in a wordy discussion that ends in a broil. Lose one s marbles is an idiom that dates to the mid 1800s. You needn t say nothing no more to me about no marbles this is most probably why the plural marbles came to be figuratively used to mean mental faculties common sense in the phrases to lose one s marbles to have or not have all one s. Lose one s marbles definition is to become insane.

An idiom is a word group of words or phrase that has a figurative meaning that is not easily deduced from its literal definition. During the late 19th century losing one s marbles began to be used to mean getting frustrated or angry. Look it up now. Lose one s marbles definition.

If you say that someone has lost their marbles you mean that their ideas or behaviour. How to use lose one s marbles in a sentence.