henhouse
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Origin of henhouse
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Best Little Henhouse is the name of Danovich's own curious colorful flock, as well as the title of their popular Instagram account.
From Salon • May 10, 2023
This will also become known as the "Fox in the Henhouse" award for future reference.
From Salon • Mar. 2, 2023
Y has come to think of this man as the Hen, and his prison as the Henhouse.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Finally, he realizes that before he can assert his autonomy, he must relinquish the whole institutional Henhouse world and reject the paternalistic hand of psychiatry, which first helped him but now threatens to smother him.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I have a vivid recollection of riding in hot haste on a rake to tell the King—not in proper fairy fashion that the skies were fallen, but that Lord Turkey of Henhouse was dead.
From Olivia in India by Douglas, O.
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