To Have All My Marbles
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To have all my marbles. What is common in all the early citations is the sense of loss and the consequent reaction to it. What does doesn 39 t have all my marbles expression mean. Definition of doesn t have all my marbles in the idioms dictionary. By 1927 the loss of sanity meaning had won out and an edition of american speech defined the term unambiguously.
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Doesn t have all my marbles phrase. That is a positive version of marbles. Choose from faux pearls created opals semi precious stones precious metal charm marbles and more. Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals most commonly calcite or dolomite marble is typically not foliated although there are exceptions in geology the term marble refers to metamorphosed limestone but its use in stonemasonry more broadly encompasses unmetamorphosed limestone.
To have all one s mental faculties. Typically used in the phrase for all the marbles which is said when one is on the verge of victory. But he s still got all his marbles is fairly common in the uk to mean someone with a physical disability or perhaps someone extremely old and frail but who still has their full mental capacity. To be mentally sound.
All the marbles all possible prizes or rewards. Definitions by the largest idiom dictionary. Marble is commonly used for sculpture and as a building material. Marbles doesn t have all his verb phrase mentally deficient.
Very often with a negative or said to convey doubt i don t think he has all his marbles. Frank apr 14 14 at 6 08. Have all one s marbles fig. Silver marble rings with interchangeable marble charms semi precious gemstones and more.