| 单词 | loony bin |
| 释义 | > as lemmasloony bin loony bin n. [bin n. 7] a facetious term for a psychiatric hospital; also figurative and elliptical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for the mentally ill bedlam-house1525 dull-house1622 madhouse1649 bedlam1663 lunatic hospital1762 asylum1776 retreat1796 lunatic house1813 lunatic asylum1828 maison de santé1843 idiot asylum1848 rat house1854 bughouse1887 Colney Hatch1891 booby hatch1896 mental hospital1898 booby house1900 nut factory1900 nut collegec1906 nuthouse1906 monkey house1910 booby-hutch1914 nuttery1915 loony bin1919 nut hatch1928 silly house1930 bin1938 snake-pit1947 funny farm1950 1919 P. G. Wodehouse My Man Jeeves 195 If you're absolutely off your rocker, but don't find it convenient to be scooped into a luny-bin, you simply explain..it was just your Artistic Temperament. 1921 P. G. Wodehouse Indiscretions of Archie xxv. 303 Nine out of ten of them had views on Art which would have admitted them to any looney-bin, and no questions asked. 1938 J. Phelan Lifer xix. 201 Left him behind us there, we did, stone balmy. Finished in a loony. 1942 N. Streatfeild I ordered Table for Six 216 Mrs. Framley must have thought him fit for a looney bin. 1959 New Statesman 28 Mar. 434/3 In short, I do not want men to live for ever in a sort of global loony-bin. 1962 J. Symonds Bezill 68 Yes, Aunt Marion. She's locked up, you know, in the looney bin. 1974 Times 9 Feb. 10/4 (heading) In the looney bin. < as lemmas |
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