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单词 colney hatch
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Colney Hatchn.

/ˌkəʊni ˈhatʃ/
Etymology: < Colney Hatch, the name of a Middlesex village, and of a hospital for the mentally ill opened there in 1851.
allusively. A hospital for the mentally ill; a ‘lunatic asylum’, a ‘madhouse’.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for the mentally ill
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1891 W. Morris News from Nowhere ii. 11 There certainly seemed no flavour in him of Colney Hatch.
1908 G. K. Chesterton Man who was Thursday i. 28 And now, in the name of the Colney Hatch, what is it?
1939 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime x. 137 He'll probably end his days in Colney Hatch.
1955 J. 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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