>n US we have an expression when we win -- we walk away with "all the marbles."
Any connection? ...comments?

Nope. When I walk away with all the marbles it means I won them at a marbles competition. Just on the very off chance that outlanders might not know, marbles are small orbs that kids used to play with, originally made of stone or perhaps ceramics, but now almost exclusively glass. And very ornamental at that.

I've never seen a marble made of marble, probably because they wouldn't last very long. Marble stone isn't particularly hard.


TEd