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lose marbles

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lose (all) one's marbles and lose one's mind
Fig. to go crazy; to go out of one's mind. What a silly thing to say! Have you lost your marbles? Look at Sally jumping up and down and screaming. Is she losing all her marbles? I can't seem to remember anything. I think I'm losing my mind.
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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. (informal)
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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.
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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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