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cuckoo's nest

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cuckoo's nest (plural cuckoo's nests)

  1. (slang) A lunatic asylum.
    • 2004, August Schwerdfeger, From Bricks to Dust, page 35:
      “Those offices have not been entered since Lyman Soap closed down, right after old Afton was hauled off to the cuckoo's nest in 1907,” said van Graven.
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