| 单词 | rat house |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrat house rat house n. (a) North American a large conical structure built from marsh vegetation and lived in by muskrats; (b) = rat firm n. (now historical); (c) Australian and New Zealand slang a psychiatric hospital. 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 society > communication > printing > printing trade > [noun] > printing establishment > employing non-union workmen rat house1854 rat firm1889 1854 Spirit of Times 14 Jan. 571/3 I gits behind a bunch of rushes..and then I seed..an old cock goose on a rat house. 1882 J. Southward Pract. Printing 542 There are no ‘unfair’ or ‘rat’ houses and no scale to regulate wages. 1900 J. Bradshaw Highway Robbery under Arms 120 The doctor certified him to be a madman. Bertrand then got packed off to the rat-house. 1965 North (Ottawa) Nov. 26/1 Norman McDonald and Freddy Frost..went to Crow Flat to..stake rat house. 1993 Toronto Star (Nexis) 19 June g15 A rat-firm,..-house..is a place wherein less than full union rates are paid. 2001 Newcastle (Austral.) Herald (Nexis) 10 Sept. 33 Anyone who bets in the races up the straight six at Flemington should be locked up in the rat house. < as lemmas |
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