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Cuckoo's nest

noun

Pejorative terms for an insane asylum. Synonyms: Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit.

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... had already begun, but if we had discovered them earlier in the year, we should have seen that they were never less fragile or loosely constructed than we find them now. Such is a cuckoo's nest, such a mourning dove's or a heron's; merely a flat platform of a few interlaced twigs, through which the eggs are visible from below. Why, we ask, are some birds so careless or so unskilful? The European ...

— The Log of the Sun - A Chronicle of Nature's Year • William Beebe

Words linked to "Cuckoo's nest" : mental hospital, asylum, institution, mental institution, mental home, psychiatric hospital, sanatorium, insane asylum