Lost My Marbles Peter Pan

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Lost my marbles peter pan. 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. I m an orphan and i ve never done drugs because i missed the sixties i was an accountant. 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. You re a you re a complex freudian hallucination having something to do with my mother and i don t know why you have wings but you have very lovely legs and you re a very nice tiny person and what am i saying i don t know who my mother was.