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lose one's marbles

verb

Definitions

  1. Synonym of lose one's mind (“to become crazy”).

    • 1981 April 13, New York magazine, vol. 14, no. 15, There it was again, the suggestion that the governor had lost his marbles. And, to be truthful, Breslin is a bit late on the loony angle.
    • If my golfing friends would see me now, they'd crap in their pants laughing at me. They'd say that poor jerk had lost his marbles.
    • Jimi's obsession with his guitar garnered him a nickname around Clarksville: Marbles. He was so named because people thought he had "lost his marbles" and was crazy as a result of his excessive practicing.

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