cuckoo's nest
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Noun
editcuckoo's nest (plural cuckoo's nests)
- (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.