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lose marbles

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lose your marbles (informal)
to start acting in a strange way and forgetting things. I may be old, but I haven't lost my marbles yet.
See also: lose, marble

lose your marbles
to start forgetting things, behaving strangely, or becoming mentally ill. I haven't lost my marbles yet. She's begun to lose her marbles, and there's nothing we can do.
See also: lose, marble

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``The more experience she garnered,'' Rosenfeld tells us, ``the more eyeballs she saw lolling about in their sockets like so many lose marbles - the more it seemed to her that the state of arousal and the state of amity were two distinct principalities with no diplomatic ties.
 
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