funny farm

funny farm
noun Date: 1963 slang a psychiatric hospital

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  • funny farm — n a psychiatric hospital or home for men tal patients ► They re coming to take me away, ha ha, to the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time. ( They re coming to take me away, ha haaa! , song by Napoleon XIV, 1966) …   Contemporary slang

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