funny farm

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funny farm (plural funny farms)

  1. (slang) An insane asylum. [from the 20th c.]
    Synonyms: nuthouse; see also Thesaurus:mental hospital
    • 1968, Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes, page 117:
      Paddy the Duke was right. I had one more "tour of duty" to put in at the funny farm. They turned me loose a few days after he left, sometime in the winter months of 1959, but in a little more than a year's time I would be back at Avalon Valley; and I would be a very sick man.

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