Lost marbles
to loose ones marbles: to go grazy.
it must have been a child who came up with this expression after loosing his marbles in a game of marbles (or better, it was his opponent who came up with it). I played marbles a lot and lost lots of them. There’s basically three type of kids:
- The one that came to school with a certain amount of marbles. He/she would play marbles all day and return home with the exact same amount of marbles.
- The one that came to school with no marbles at all, borrowed one marble and returned home with almost all the marbles present at the schools playground that day.
- The one that came to school with lots of marbles and returned with none.
I had a tendency to be a type 3 marble player. Please don’t feel sorry for me, I still have lots of marbles.
