- a variation of nut house.
nuthouse
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“Romeo and Juliet,” which had its North American premiere on Wednesday at the Ahmanson Theatre, combines the brooding sexual melancholy of “Spring Awakening” and the nuthouse authoritarianism of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
Kelly wants to exit the nuthouse and he sees this as his best excuse, trumped-up though it is.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2018
"Holy Motors" - French, fantastical and nuthouse crazy, Leos Carax's film might seem the stuff of pretentious art house.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2012
The real sticking point is that Brody had Carrie removed from her job and put in the nuthouse.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2012
Railroad Tommy had given him a janitor’s job to save him from the poorhouse, workhouse, or nuthouse, one.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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