Pejorative terms for an insane asylum.
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Examples for "madhouse "
Examples for "madhouse "
1 It is a fireman mounting the great elm-tree in the madhouse yard.
2 But never mind that; one must keep one's temper in this madhouse .
3 The Bishop obeyed Christ's injunction and got locked up in a madhouse .
4 They took him to the madhouse , and perhaps he is there still.
5 Finally two doctors visited me, and I was taken to a madhouse .
1 Tells of changes in the sanatorium , which is run by new people.
2 Alix Petrova had to stop for a moment outside the sanatorium entrance.
3 Why do you think he was there in the sanatorium that day?
4 We need some one at the sanatorium to look after the office--
5 They are talking of making Buea into a sanatorium for the fever-stricken.
1 The attacks kept happening, though, and that's when I checked into the nuthouse .
2 Not everyone you meet in the nuthouse is nuts, you know.
3 The mother should've been in the nuthouse , not the daughter.
4 He thought the nuthouse was a much better possibility.
5 Sophie glanced at Langdon, uncertain whether she'd stepped back in time or into a nuthouse .
1 The winner of a proxy contest was determined in the snake pit .
2 They were about to roll into the middle of a snake pit .
3 Into this snake pit of lofty prospects arrives 'Mad Men's second-season launch.
4 Their weapons were as dead as mice in a snake pit .
5 My God, what a fucking snake pit this has turned out to be.
1 Oklahoma has defeated Oklahoma State five straight times in the Bedlam Series.
2 I need some information on the current whereabouts of the Bedlam Boys.
3 Arms were waving in the air, and the scene was like Bedlam .
4 No Mortal out of the depths of Bedlam but lives by Formulas.
5 So, what did you tell the Bedlam Boys, when they came calling?
1 They finally put him in the booby hatch , poor feller.
2 She said, Carry Mom to the booby hatch 'n leave her on the steps, I guess.
3 They've even threatened to have him thrown in the booby hatch just to get rid of him.
4 He had slipped down the booby hatch into the big after-room and thence through the hallway to my room.
5 They sized him up as being just another of those inventor bugs and so sent him to the booby hatch in Bellevue.
1 So they'll say he's crazy and put him in the crazy house .
2 And by the way, I'm calling you from the crazy house .
3 But I won't come in this fireman's crazy house again in my lifetime!
4 Thomas had no problem leaving that crazy house - he followed Newt out and into the hall.
5 Then, "It's the crazy house at the carnival," she said.
1 The blue jay now and then lays in an old crow's nest or cuckoo 's nest .
2 But don't fly into the cuckoo 's nest .
3 Remember the end of One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest ?
4 Two years ago, it was Twelve Angry Men; last year One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest .
5 Kesey wrote other works and novels after Cuckoo 's Nest , but they never won the same praise.
1 And I think you're one step away from the funny farm .
2 Could be, the gal'd been one of his nurses at the funny farm .
3 Then you might fetch up in the funny farm .
4 See you smart guys at the funny farm .
5 And she has another surprise: The people who tell these stories aren't candidates for the funny farm .
1 He hadn't explained, however, why the local loony bin bore their name.
2 You going off to California, me going off to the loony bin .
3 I swear to God, I was better off in the loony bin !
4 Others just glare at me like I recently escaped from the loony bin .
5 She wasn't going to call the loony bin to come take him away.
1 But he didn't want to end up in the nut house .
2 I dream I've been committed to a nut house .
3 The staff says he is in a nut house .
4 Delbert was in the nut house with me.
5 You're gonna send me to a nut house ?
1 I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses .
2 ... And what a funny house , isn't it, with landscapes like that in it?
3 "This is an awfully funny house , " she said to herself.
4 "How do you like my funny house ? "
5 "It's rather a funny house , isn't it?"
6 " Funny house , " he said laconically.
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