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Colney Hatch|ˌkəʊnɪ ˈhætʃ|
The name of a Middlesex village, and of a mental hospital opened there in 1851; used allusively for: a lunatic asylum; a ‘madhouse’.
1890W. Morris News fr. Nowhere (1970) ii. 8 There certainly seemed no flavour in him of Colney Hatch. 1908G. K. Chesterton Man who was Thursday i. 28 And now, in the name of the Colney Hatch, what is it? 1939Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime x. 137 He'll probably end his days in Colney Hatch. 1955J. Lehmann Whispering Gallery I. ii. 103 They would, I am sure, have thanked their stars that they were not inmates of such a childish Colney Hatch. |