Taking My Marbles And Going Home

Withdraw petulantly from an activity after having suffered a setback.

Taking my marbles and going home.

Many of us have heard the often used phrase i am taking my marbles and going home as a way to characterize those who opt out of the game or process prematurely because things are not going the way they hoped. And when he does not get his way threatens to pick up his marbles and go home origin middle english via old french variant of marbre from latin marmor from greek marmaros shining stone associated with marmairein to shine. So wright changes her mind about tissue donation. Take your marbles and go home on the other hand would have meant you re the one being thrown out of said game or process for cheating or being a bad sport or just plain irritating if you know what i mean.

Tue 13 aug 2002 00 00 26 0700 pdt. I m taking my marbles and going home. Pick up one s marbles and go home. It seems that the governor is ready to pick up his marbles and go home if the state senate isn t willing to increase the funds for the redevelopment scheme.

If someone got mad and left the game they would take their marbles and go home. No one wants to see a child die. The study didn t show what she wanted it to show. The danger of relying on a private organization to fund a political campaign is that they may pick up their marbles and go home if the candidate doesn t do.

Otherwise known as a quitter. Techwr l techwr l at lists dot raycomm dot com date. He doesn t have the guts to take a bad defeat and is now picking up his marbles and going home. Author prev author next thread prev thread next author index this month thread index this month top of archive re.

By extension anyone who gets mad and drops out of any game or project could be said to take his marbles and go. Even though it s an empty threat though wright s attitude is very much akin to that of a child who if he doesn t get her way threatens to take all his marbles and go home. Historically taking my marbles and going home referred to a person who opted out of a game or process prematurely because they didn t like the way things were going. I would hope he would recognize that this is not an appropriate location pick up his marbles and go home but we ve long since given up hope on that.

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