| 单词 | ding-a-ling wagon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasding-a-ling wagon ding-a-ling wagon n. North American slang a vehicle used to transport people who are mentally ill or psychologically disturbed to a psychiatric hospital.Usually (with humorous exaggeration) referred to in order to imply a person's supposedly unbalanced or deluded state of mind. ΚΠ 1899 Record-Union (Sacramento, Calif.) 16 July 7/2 The ding-a-ling wagon backed up and took him to the funny house where he's now playing with paper dolls. 1916 Sat. Evening Post 12 Feb. 12/2 You can't chase a lady up the way you're doing, you know. It's too metropolitan for this burg and is liable to land you in the ding-a-ling wagon. 1975 Playground Daily News (Fort Walton Beach, Florida) 10 Aug. 7 c/1 The neighbors won't stare or call the ding-a-ling wagon. < as lemmas |
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