| 单词 | to lose one's marbles |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lose one's marbles 13. In plural. colloquial (originally North American). Mental faculties; brains; common sense. Usually in to lose one's marbles, to have (also not have) all one's marbles, and variants. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intellect > [noun] > intellectual powers five witsc1200 wits1362 inwitc1380 spiritsc1450 fifteen wits1606 intellectuals1615 intellects1649 furniture1788 plant1861 marbles1902 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > common sense > [noun] witc1175 sensea1382 conscience1449 mother witc1475 common wit1517 common sense1536 philosophy1557 good sense?1562 sconce1567 mother-sense1603 ingenuity1651 bonsense1681 rumgumption1686 nous1706 gumption?1719 rummlegumption1751 savvy1785 horse sense1832 kokum1848 sabe1872 common1899 marbles1902 gump1920 loaf1925 1902 G. V. Hobart It's up to You 64 I see-sawed back and forth between Clara J. and the smoke-holder like a man who is shy some of his marbles. 1927 Amer. Speech 2 360 Marbles, doesn't have all his (verb phrase), mentally deficient. ‘There goes a man who doesn't have all his marbles.’ 1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 75/1 Marbles, the brain. 1957 M. Millar Soft Talkers i. 7 She's a fattish little hausfrau with some of her marbles missing. 1958 P. G. Wodehouse Cocktail Time xvii. 148 Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on? 1969 J. Wainwright Take-over Men i. 8 You lost your goddam' marbles? You gone completely crazy, you nutty slob? 1973 Ottawa Jrnl. 6 Feb. 9/4 ‘I still have most of my marbles,’ he said cheerfully. 1987 S. Bellow More die of Heartbreak 101 Mother was studying me with real concern, as if I had lost my marbles. < as lemmas |
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