![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Peter: Ha ha ha! He really did lose his marbles, didn’t he? Might you have been confused by Hook, the film that was made from it in 1991? That includes the exchange: Is this the origin?Ī There’s no mention of marbles in J M Barrie’s original 1904 play, Peter Pan. Q From Mike Pataky: Can you tell me the origin of the expression, He has lost his marbles, meaning gone mad or lost his reason or done something really stupid? Being a Londoner myself, I suspected it might be a Cockney expression but I recently heard it in Peter Pan where the uncle (who is not quite ‘compos mentis’) is said to have found his lost marbles.
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