Well i ve not lost but i think i ve misplaced my joy.
Peter pan i found my marbles.
I m an orphan and i ve never done drugs because i missed the sixties i was an accountant.
Is this the origin a there s no mention of marbles in j m barrie s original 1904 play peter pan.
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.
After peter and his family arrive at wendy s house peter sees him crawling on the floor and he explains i ve lost my marbles which peter banning readily agrees with.
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.
Tootles is the peter pan character who is seen searching for something on the floor and explains i ve lost my marbles in the movie hook.
In peter pan who was it that said i ve lost my marbles.
As time passes the vase gets emptier reminding me that each day is precious my marbles are precious.
Later in neverland thud butt gives peter a small bag containing tootles marbles revealing that they were his happy thoughts and he lost them literally rather than.
Upon finding his marbles he became more spontaneous and joyful over the fact that he hadn t really lost his marbles and he was a whole functioning person as he believed he once was.
Is this the origin.
In this game of marbles you don t need to knuckle down and there are no keepsies.
A there s no mention of marbles in j m barrie s original 1904 play peter pan.