have all marbles

have all marbles
have all (your) marbles informal lose (your) marbles - to start acting in a strange way and forgetting things.

He's pretty old but he still has all his marbles, if that's what you mean.


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  • have\ all\ one's\ marbles — • have all one s buttons • have all one s marbles v. phr. slang To have all your understanding; be reasonable. Usually used in the negative or conditionally. Mike acts sometimes as if he didn t have all his buttons. He would not go to town… …   Словарь американских идиом

  • have all your marbles — have all (your) marbles informal lose (your) marbles to start acting in a strange way and forgetting things. He s pretty old but he still has all his marbles, if that s what you mean …   New idioms dictionary

  • have\ all\ one's\ buttons — • have all one s buttons • have all one s marbles v. phr. slang To have all your understanding; be reasonable. Usually used in the negative or conditionally. Mike acts sometimes as if he didn t have all his buttons. He would not go to town… …   Словарь американских идиом

  • have all one’s marbles — tv. to have all one’s mental faculties; to be mentally sound. (See also lose (all) one’s marbles. Have got can replace have.) □ I don’t think he has all his marbles. □ Do you think Bob has all his marbles? …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • have all one's buttons — or[have all one s marbles] {v. phr.}, {slang} To have all your understanding; be reasonable. Usually used in the negative or conditionally. * /Mike acts sometimes as if he didn t have all his buttons./ * /He would not go to town barefooted if he… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • have all one's buttons — or[have all one s marbles] {v. phr.}, {slang} To have all your understanding; be reasonable. Usually used in the negative or conditionally. * /Mike acts sometimes as if he didn t have all his buttons./ * /He would not go to town barefooted if he… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • Marbles (album) — Marbles Studio album by Marillion Released April 27, 2004 (preorder) May 3, 2004 …   Wikipedia

  • all — See: AFTER ALL, AND ALL, AT ALL, BEAT ALL or BEAT THE DUTCH, FOR ALL, FOR ALL ONE IS WORTH, FOR ALL ONE KNOWS, FOR ALL THE WORLD, FOR GOOD also FOR GOOD AND ALL, FROM THE BOTTOM OF ONE S HEART or WITH ALL ONE S HEART, HAVE ALL ONE S BUTTONS or… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • all — See: AFTER ALL, AND ALL, AT ALL, BEAT ALL or BEAT THE DUTCH, FOR ALL, FOR ALL ONE IS WORTH, FOR ALL ONE KNOWS, FOR ALL THE WORLD, FOR GOOD also FOR GOOD AND ALL, FROM THE BOTTOM OF ONE S HEART or WITH ALL ONE S HEART, HAVE ALL ONE S BUTTONS or… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • all — See: after all, and all, at all, beat all or beat the Dutch, for all, for all one is worth, for all one knows, for all the world, for good also for good and all, from the bottom of one s heart or with all one s heart, have all one s buttons or… …   Словарь американских идиом

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