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funny house - pejorative terms for an insane asylum

booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit, Bedlam

mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital, insane asylum, asylum, institution - a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person

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That's all right, you're better!...No excitement!...And what a funny house, isn't it, with landscapes like that in it?"

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For instance, a man one day came in, in a rather perturbed state of mind, having been dubbed by his fellow clerks a candidate for the funny house, as he expressed himself.

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