marbles
See also: Marbles
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marbles
marbles pl (plural only)
- Any of several children's games played with small glass balls.
- Egyptian boys played marbles before the days of Moses.
- (usually in a limited number of expressions) Sanity.
- Grandpa's lost his marbles, but at least he still recognizes us.
- Granny's still got all her marbles.
- His lack of marbles is becoming ever more apparent. -adapted from Google Books, but scarce
- As fleet on her feet as she is lacking in marbles, Madeline eludes him and goes off. -adapted from Google Books, but scarce
- He's several marbles short of a full bag.
- Granny is a few marbles short of a Parthenon. -adapted from Google Books - but not this idiom
- The lady-tramp might be one or two marbles short of a set.
- 2012, J. T. Petty, Bloody Chester, First Second, →ISBN, p. 63:
- —Her daddy's crazy. [...] Think she's looking for something?
—Treasure, I expect. That or maybe her daddy's marbles.
- —Her daddy's crazy. [...] Think she's looking for something?
- Bits of rolled-up rubber shed by the tires of race cars that accumulate at the edges of the track, especially at the corners.
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2014, Amen Zwa, Going Nowhere Fast In Assetto Corsa (2015-05-01), →ISBN, page 395:
- Some corners are littered with marbles, off the racing line.
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marbles
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of marble