Pejorative terms for an insane asylum.
Any place of pain and turmoil;
A historical European means of imposing capital punishment.
1The winner of a proxy contest was determined in the snake pit.
2They were about to roll into the middle of a snake pit.
3Into this snake pit of lofty prospects arrives 'Mad Men's second-season launch.
4Their weapons were as dead as mice in a snake pit.
5My God, what a fucking snake pit this has turned out to be.
6So down into the snake pit, as soon as may be!
7My first impression is one of overweening activity, almost snake pit-like in its intensity.
8Like Samantha, Presley had escaped what her father used to call the snake pit.
9And I think we just fell into the snake pit.
10Sometimes you'll discover a treasure, and other times you'll fall into a snake pit.
11But I had no desire to move up to that snake pit called New York.
12The life of a rabbit in a snake pit.
13Maybe Hammonds was right about the snake pit.
14This isn't one of those snake pit places.
15Why have TDs over the years created and developed a Dail reminiscent of a venomous snake pit?
16Larson, without realizing it, had stepped into a snake pit of risk at the worst possible time.
Translations for snake pit