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What is the origin of the common phrase losing your marbles?
The word 'marbles' has had many meanings throughout history. Marbles are generally known as the little glass balls that children use to play a game. From the mid 19th century, 'marbles' was also used to mean 'personal effects', 'goods', or more generally 'stuff'. This derived from the French word 'meubles', which means 'furniture'. Therefore, to lose one's marbles means "to lose your stuff," or, idomatically, to lose one's mind.
What game has a clear plastic tower and has plastic sticks with marbles on them and you either try to get or prevent the marbles to fall I forget which?
Kerplunk ! I love that game. and you try to get as many sticks out without getting marbles and if you do try not to get to much because if you have the most at the end of the game you lose.
If Tim lost one-eighth of his marbles and he had 56 how many did he lose?
1/8 of 56 is 7 since 7x8=56 So Tim lost 7 marbles.
What does the phrase this is for all the marbles mean?
Winner takes all
Jerry has a total of 23 marbles the marbles are either blue or green he has three more blue marbles than green marbles how many marbles does he have?
He will have 13 blue marbles and 10 green marbles.
