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Discover LudwigThe phrase "funny farm" is a colloquial term that can be used in informal or creative writing to refer to a psychiatric hospital or institution.
It is not typically used in formal writing or in medical or clinical settings. Example: "After spending two weeks in the funny farm, John realized that the therapy and medication were helping him manage his mental illness."
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funny farm
noun
An insane asylum.
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Leaves for the funny farm.
You, Gary's voice echoes, mucking out the funny farm?
The wonder is that none of these people have yet been carted off to the funny farm.
After directing Chevy Chase in the comedy Funny Farm (1988), Hill left Hollywood to teach drama at Yale.
But that's not something I would say in public, for fear of being taken off to the funny farm".
Freddie hatches a plan, which involves Pongo the pustule impersonating Sir Roderick Glossop, the loony doctor (everyone is attempting to have everyone else committed to the funny farm).
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In John Lee Beatty's smart design, the funny farms they and their fellow patients occupy are as witty as the illustrations in children's picture books.
But those Bostonians don't represent a big pop-culture market, and their funny-farm jokes rarely get play on television.
On her way home one night, Halle suffers a blackout and wakes up in her own funny-farm - in restraints, as one of the patients.
"We are funny little farming company in Kenya that's launching a mobile tool that we believe is going to bring back the basics of a market-driven, demand economy".
"FO is for Farm, The Funny, where most of the Royal Family now think Diana should be sent.
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