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单词 nuthouse
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nuthouse

/ˈnʌthaʊs /
noun informal
A home or hospital for people with mental illnesses.Gerrit Smith has come down to us through history as the hypochondriacal abolitionist sugar daddy who bought John Brown his guns in 1859 and then avoided prosecution for treason with a well-timed stint in the nuthouse....
  • This guy wasn't paranoiac enough to be strapped to a gurney in the nuthouse, but was paranoiac enough to scare the shit out of you and make you sniffle in a toilet stall all by yourself.
  • At the beginning of the film, the five construction workers are hired to extract all of the asbestos from a long-disused nuthouse in preparation for its restoration and transformation into the town archive.
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