snake pit
蛇窝,蛇坑,蛇洞,蛇口
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Informal.
- : a mental hospital marked by squalor and inhumane or indifferent care for the patients.
- : an intensely chaotic or disagreeable place or situation.
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So what of the photograph of what the Senate report described as a “well-used waterboard” with buckets around it, at the Salt Pit?
He watched the pit grow bigger every month, despite the numerous reports he wrote about the facility.
He said he watched waste haulers back up to the pit and unleash torrents of watery muck.
In several reports he urged the pit operators to safeguard the birds.
For these Arabs, Iran is the raised (and loaded) head of the snake.
With the management of these, however, the Earl of Pit Town did not trouble himself.
At length the great Pit Town collection was housed as it deserved to be.
Old Pit Town knows lots of good people, and would give us letters, I suppose.
Certes le capitaine Merveilles et ses gens monstrerent leur pit non vulgaire.
He heard Mohammedans alluding to a Brahmin as a leader—so might a wolf and a snake make common alliance against a watch dog.