Colored glass marbles spill from a tipped jar in warm golden light.

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Toodles

I've lost my marbles.

— Hook · 1991

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker declares they have lost their marbles, using the idiom for going mad or losing mental sharpness. It is a rueful, self-deprecating way to say their thinking has slipped, with the phrase's playful image doing much of the work.

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