snake pit

Noun
  1. Any place of pain and turmoil (synset 108600365)
    "the hell of battle"; "the inferno of the engine room"; "when you're alone Christmas is the pits"
    is a type of: part, region - the extended spatial location of something
    same as: hell, hell on earth, hellhole, inferno, the pits
  2. Pejorative terms for an insane asylum (synset 102823933)
    is a type of: asylum, insane asylum, institution, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital - a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
    same as: bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium

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