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