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Meanings of snake pit in английском
каталонский
casa de boigs испанский
casa de locos Pejorative terms for an insane asylum.
Synonyms
Examples for "madhouse"
Examples for "madhouse"
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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
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
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-hefollowed 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
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?"
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.
Usage of snake pit in английском
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.
6
So down into the snake pit, as soon as may be!
7
My first impression is one of overweening activity, almost snake pit-like in its intensity.
8
Like Samantha, Presley had escaped what her father used to call the snake pit.
9
And I think we just fell into the snake pit.
10
Sometimes you'll discover a treasure, and other times you'll fall into a snake pit.
11
But I had no desire to move up to that snake pit called New York.
12
The life of a rabbit in a snake pit.
13
Maybe Hammonds was right about the snake pit.
14
This isn't one of those snake pit places.
15
Why have TDs over the years created and developed a Dail reminiscent of a venomous snake pit?
16
Larson, without realizing it, had stepped into a snake pit of risk at the worst possible time.
Translations for snake pit
испанский
португальский