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• n  pejorative terms for an insane asylum

• It was impossible to persuade Southerners to nominate Governor Smith four years ago in the Manhattan madhouse.
• It is a timeless madhouse, swarming with unpaid servants and port-guzzling visitors.
• The event, a notorious madhouse of semi-serious riding and beer drinking along the toll road between the two spring break towns south of the border, was more subdued this year.

• Bedlam
• booby hatch
• crazy house
• cuckoo's nest
• funny farm
• funny house
• loony bin
• nut house
• nuthouse
• sanatorium
• snake pit

News & Articles

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• Stanley Cup Final 2013: Game 5 Preview, TV Info and Predictions
  The Chicago Blackhawks were victorious in a pivotal Game 4 at TD Garden, and the Madhouse on Madison will be full of intensity as the series shifts back to Chicago for Game 5. Game 4 was another contest that required overtime, and the Blackhawks are very luck that Corey Crawford’s glove hand, or lack thereof, didn ’t cost them the game. The Blackhawks had a little bit of everything going for ...
  June 21, 2013 - Bleacher Report
• Mini-Kim Kardashian gives birth at Beacher's Madhouse with Jonathan Cheban
  Mini-Kim Kardashian, flanked by an over-protective Mini-Kanye West by her side, welcomed a baby girl this weekend. A little persons troupe at Beacher's Madhouse...
  June 18, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Ottmar Hitzfeld in Guardian Unlimited
  I had to set an example so everyone at Bayern knows how they're expected to behave,Hitzfeld told a news conference. "Players criticising their team mates must stop. Otherwise we become a madhouse. Kahn must know he has to set an example to...
• Jeff Quinney in Reuters.uk
  It's going to be a madhouse,Quinney told reporters. "I can't imagine the amount of people this place attracts. I'm feeling great. Obviously, happy with today's performance, three-under on Saturday, and there was some tough pins out there,...
• George Osborne in AFP
  The planned rise in National Insurance contributions was "the economics of the madhouse," said George Osborne, shadow finance minister, pledging that the Conservatives would cover the cost by cutting six billion pounds of "waste" from the public...